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	Marc Isambard Brunel
		Marc Isambard Brunel was the son of Jean Charles Brunel,a prosperous farmer, and Marie Victoria Lefevre, Jean Charles's second of four wives.
		Brunel perfected a method for making ships' blocks (pulleys) by mechanical means, rather than by hand, and sailed to England in 1799 to lay his plans before the British government.
		Brunel's Tunnel Shield covered the area to be excavated and consisted of 12 seperate frames, comprising altogether 36 cells in which a workman was engaged working independantly of the others.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /b.gardner/brunel/marcbrun.html (717 words)

	Isambard Kingdom Brunel
		The son of noted engineer Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, Isambard K. Brunel was sent to France to be educated at the College of Caen in Normandy and the Lycée Henri-Quatre in Paris.
		Brunel made the controversial choice of using broad gauge (7ft 0.25in or 2.14m) for the line.
		Brunel was included in the top 10 of the 100 Greatest Britons poll conducted by the BBC and voted for by the public.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/br/Brunel.html (0 words)

	Spotlight: Isambard Brunel, by Leslie Weddell
		Brunel was educated in Paris and Caen and, at the age of 17, joined his father who was at the time engaged on the construction of the Thames Tunnel under the River Thames between Rotherhithe and Wapping.
		Brunel was in charge of the design, the size, the building of the vessel and always had the confidence that it would succeed.
		Brunel was faced with a series of difficult engineering problems to overcome on this project and the strain of the work began to affect his health.
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	Marc Isambard Brunel
		Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (April 25, 1769 - December 12, 1849) was a French-born engineer who eventually settled in the United Kingdom.
		He preferred the name Isambard, but is generally known to history as Marc, to avoid confusion with his more famous son Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
		The younger son of a farmer in Normandy, initially he was set to train for the priesthood, but had a more practical mind, and became a naval officer cadet instead.
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		In 1825 Marc Brunel was engaged to construct a tunnel under the Thames (the world's first important sub aqueous tunnel) by means of a new tunneling shield that he had invented.
		Brunel was brought in as resident engineer in 1826, tirelessly organizing the work until two disastrous inundations in 1827 and 1828 brought it to a halt (work recommenced in 1835 and was finally finished in 1843).
		Brunel was injured in the second flooding, and during his recuperation submitted designs for a competition to build a bridge across the Avon Gorge at Bristol.
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	Brunel 200: Childhood and Family Background
		Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849) was a French royalist and naval officer who had fled France in 1793 during the Reign of Terror.
		Marc had a letter of introduction to the First Lord of the Admiralty from a mutual acquaintance and received permission to come to Britain to set up a block-making factory in Portsmouth docks to supply the Royal Navy.
		Marc was pleased that his son Isambard showed an interest in engineering and taught him arithmetic, scale drawing and geometry at home.
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	BBC - h2g2 - Brunel, Father and Son - British Engineering Genius
		Marc Isambard Brunel (1769 - 1849) was born near Rouen in northern France, and as an 11-year-old he had already decided he was going to be an engineer.
		In 1809, Marc Brunel was so horrified at the condition of the feet of soldiers returning from war that he decided to invent a series of machines to mass-produce boots and shoes.
		Marc Brunel had married Sophia Kingdom, and their only son was a chip off the old block.
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	Brunel 200: The Thames Tunnel
		Within 24 hours, Brunel was inside a diving bell, borrowed from the West India Dock Company, inspecting the hole in the tunnel roof that had caused the flood, one foot resting on the completed brickwork, the other on the shield.
		Brunel was standing in the shield at the time and was swept away.
		Although Marc was again able to fill the breach, work came to a halt as the finances were exhausted and business confidence in the project was lost.
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	Portsmouth - A History from Year Dot: Famous Pompey Sons
		Marc and his wife settled in Portsea where, on the 9th April 1806, their son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born.
		Marc’s system, comprising 43 machines, could be run by just 10 men and produced blocks superior in quality and consistency to those made by hand with a higher production.
		Marc Brunel was elected to the Royal Society and knighted in 1841.
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	ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born in Portsea on 9th April 1806 to an English mother (nee Kingdom) and a French father.
		His father, Marc Brunel, was a French monarchist whose continuing residence in revolutionary France had made life there somewhat uncomfortable.
		Brunel's original specification was too constraining resulting in trains too underpowered to take advantage of the long straight GWR routes.
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	Institution of Civil Engineers :: Services :: Bookshop :: Products
		Brunel was outstandingly a man of his times and the author explains why Brunel has come to represent the pinnacle of British achievement of his period.
		A portrait of Marc Brunel, Brunel’s highly original and inventive father who played a crucial role as the educator of his son and who was equally important to the development of both civil and mechanical engineering.
		The fascinating story of how Brunel created the modern ship, and how that first prototype survived the vicissitudes and vagaries of oceanic life by accident and design to return to her birthplace 120 years later for the start of her long-term restoration.
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	Isambard Kingdom Brunel
		Brunel, perhaps, was the most prodigious of them all and many of his works, which challenged and inspired his colleagues during this period, have survived to our own time and some are still in use.
		He was born in 1806, the son of a distinguished French engineer, Sir Marc Brunel, who had come to England at the time of the French Revolution.
		Brunel's other works included docks, viaducts, tunnels and buildings and the remarkable prefabricated hospital, with its air-conditioning and drainage systems for use in the Crimean War.
	www.brunel.ac.uk /about/history/ikb (0 words)

	Book of the Month: February 2006
		For some time Brunel had been playing with the idea for the application of machinery to the manufacture of ship's blocks on a large scale--a ship block is a pulley or system of pulleys mounted in a case, used to increase the mechanical power of the ropes running through them (OED).
		Between 1805 and the early 1820s, Brunel was involved in numerous engineering enterprises, including experiments in steam navigation on the Thames, the design of bridges, docks, and a great variety of machines for wood-working, textile manufacture, printing, and sewing military boots.
		Hawkins' project was put forward, Brunel was completing his works at Chatham, and one day, as he himself related to me, when passing through the dockyard, his attention was attracted to an old piece of ship timber which had been perforated by that well known destroyer of timber--the Teredo naualis.
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	Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, The Journal of Transport History, The - Find Articles
		Brunel clearly intended the Great Eastern to be an extension of a global transport system; Buchanan reminds us that it was also, like the Thames tunnel of Marc Isambard Brunel, a huge media event.
		Brunel's office emerges as a place in which a dozen projects might be simultaneously co-ordinated whilst - or perhaps because Brunel remained aloof even from fervent supporters like Daniel Gooch.
		Brunel's talk about the Great Western Railway, his Italian railway projects and the Great Eastern was permeated by system-speak; Buchanan himself writes of Brunel's gigantic woven fabric and uses the phrase 'technological system' at least once.
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	Victorian Art in Britain
		Marc Brunel was born near Rouen in 1769, and worked in France until 1794, when he fled from the excesses of the French Revolution to the United States.
		I had omitted to mention that Brunel’s wife was Mary Horsley, sister of John Callcott Horsley RA (1817-1903), painter, and, famously, prude.
		Another picture by the same artist at the exhibition was “The Parting-Second Class,” in which a young boy, possibly joining the navy is shown on a train with his mother, from whom he must soon part, a subject heavy with the pathos which appealed to contemporary taste, and with a firm basis of truth.
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	Brunel Engine House - Marc Brunel
		Brunel soon began work on his greatest engineering achievements his tunneling shield that enabled the first tunnel built under a river to be built.
		Brunel is also one of the few people ever to hold American and British citizenship, and could boast a successful career in both countries.
		Marc Brunel found his sweetheart in London, married her, and eventually settled in Rotherhithe.
	www.brunelenginehouse.org.uk /people_mb.asp (1177 words)

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		Marc was born in Normandy in 1769 but during the Jacobin terror he fled to the United States where he became city engineer to the rapidly growing city of New York.
		Marc described his invention to a gathering at the Institution of Civil Engineers on 17th February, 1824, where it was received with enthusiasm.
		Marc succeeded in raising £179,000 and the subscribers included many well-informed and well-connected men of the time: Edward Baring of Baring’s bank; Benjamin Hawes, later Secretary of War; and the engineering Bramahs, descendants of Joseph Bramah whose many inventions included the Victorian water-closet and an unpickable lock.
	www.firshman.co.uk /st-peters-church/review/2005/03/marc.htm (0 words)

	Marc Isambard Brunel Biography \| World of Invention
		Marc Isambard Brunel was born in Hacqueville, Normandy, France.
		Brunel was a prolific inventor but a poor businessman.
		Brunel was knighted for his achievement in 1841.
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	No. 17: Brunel
		His father, Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, was born in France in 1769 and died in England in 1849.
		At first Marc Brunel's work was part of the wave of building characteristic of the Industrial Revolution.
		It was all it was meant to be, with one catch: it was only one quarter as fuel-efficient as Brunel had expected, and that killed it as a passenger liner.
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	SIR MARC ISAMBARD BRUN... - Online Information article about SIR MARC ISAMBARD BRUN...
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		Seven years later it was resumed with the aid of money advanced by the government, and after three more irruptions the tunnel was completed and opened in 1843.
		Aided by his son, Brunel displayed extraordinary skill and resource in the various emergencies with which he had to See also:
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	Brunel Theme
		Isambard Kingdom Brunel (April 9 1806 - September 15 1859) was a British engineer who pioneered fast, cheap and reliable mass public transport with the enthusiasm of a visionary matched by his ability to convince financiers, inspire his workers and maintain the high standards that ensured the success of his projects.
		It was Brunel's dream to integrate the travelling experience for the passenger totally and conceived of having a grand hotel at either end of his railway lines.
		It was Brunel who devised the elegant formula demonstrating that though a ship's capacity increases as the cube of the hull's dimensions, the power required to drive it increases only as the square of the dimensions.
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	Brunel, Sir Marc Isambard - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In 1825, Brunel began the construction of the Thames Tunnel (the first in which a shield was used; see tunnel).
		In the work on the tunnel Sir Marc was assisted by his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1806-59, British civil engineer and an authority on railway traction and steam navigation, b.
		He is best known, however, for his designing and construction of three oceangoing steamships: the Great Western (1838), which was the first transatlantic steam vessel, the Great Britain (1845), the first ocean screw steamship, and the Great Eastern (1858), the largest steam vessel of its time.
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	The Engineering Timelines Map of The British Isles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In 1823, on the basis of the tunnelling shield he had patented, Marc Brunel was approached to discuss the possibility of building a tunnel underneath the Thames.
		Marc Brunel moved his family from Chelsea to Blackfriars so as to live near the works and dispense with the office in Poultry.
		Of his three assistants, one died of 'tunnel fever' and one was permanently blinded in one eye, and Brunel himself suffered a period of illness during the autumn of the year.
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	About Bristol - Famous People - Isambard Kingdom Brunel
		The son of Marc Brunel, a noted engineer, he first came to Bristol in 1828, convalescing after an accident in tunnel construction under the Thames.
		Sadly Brunel had died by this time, but the bridge is a lasting testimony to his capabilities.
		Brunel had more success during his lifetime with projects on Bristol's docks, including locks, the Underfall and a dredger to keep the harbour free of silt.
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	Brunel, Sir Marc Isambard - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		BRUNEL, SIR MARC ISAMBARD [Brunel, Sir Marc Isambard], 1769-1849, British engineer and inventor.
		Brunel Dock's kiss of life?; Work is underway to find out if restoration scheme could help bring prosperity to rundown industrial town.(News)
		After a span of 165 years, Brunel bridge is found; Iron masterpiece hidden under bricks is saved from demolition.
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	Isambard Kingdom Brunel / Design Engineer (1806-1859) - Design/Designer Information
		Consuming though his railway projects were, Brunel devoted considerable time and energy to other projects, notably his 1855 design of a 1,000 bed pre-fabricated field hospital to be shipped to the Crimean War at Renkioi and a series of steamships.
		Brunel was too ill to join the great ship on its maiden voyage steaming down the Thames two days later and died on 15 September.
		Few engineers have matched Brunel’s achievements in the scale and range of his output – from the largest steamship of the age in the SS Great Eastern, to its most ingenious railway bridge in the Royal Albert.
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	No. 1405: Brunel -- Father and Son
		His father, Marc Isambard Brunel, was born in France in 1769.
		The ship was all it was meant to be, with one catch: it was only a quarter as fuel-efficient as Brunel had expected.
		But it did find its place in history when it proved to be the only ship with the carrying capacity needed to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable.
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	Brunel Sir Marc Isambard - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Brunel, Sir Marc Isambard (1769-1849), French-born British civil engineer.
		Born in Normandy, he was a naval officer before fleeing from the French...
		Brunel, Isambard Kingdom (1806-1859), British civil engineer, most famous and influential of the 19th century, whose projects were astonishing for...
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	Brunel's Sawmill, Chatham Dockyard
		At Portsmouth, a steam powered pump for draining dry docks was installed, and a man named Marc Brunel built an impressive steam powered block mills, making a long the time consuming process of block making quick and cheap.
		Brunel had iron ties put into the brickwork to help support it, probably another of his many engineering firsts.
		Brunel had estimated that his sawmill would require only 2,000 pounds per year for labor and maintenance.
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	The Brunel Museum
		Brunel's Thames Tunnel and Brunel's Great Eastern Steamship.
		The Miners' Cage on the Rotherhithe shaft is a bas relief picture of Brunel's famous Shield.
		Marc Brunel, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the life of the miners.
	www.brunel-museum.org.uk (450 words)

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