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	Sir Marc Isambard Brunel - Encyclopedia.com
		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.
		After a span of 165 years, Brunel bridge is found; Iron masterpiece hidden under bricks is saved from demolition.
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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > 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.
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	Sir Marc Isambard Brunel - LoveToKnow 1911
		SIR MARC ISAMBARD BRUNEL (1769-1849), British inventor and engineer, was born at Hacqueville in Normandy on the 25th of April 1769.
		His father, a small landowner and farmer, intended him for the church, but his taste for mathematics and mechanics inclined him to another career, and he obtained a nomination for the navy, in which he served for six years.
		A little later he was occupied in devising improved machines for sawing and bending timber, and in 1811 and 1812 he was employed by the government in erecting saw-mills at Woolwich and Chatham, carrying out at the latter dockyard a complete reorganization of the system for handling timber.
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	Isambard Kingdom Brunel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brunel rose to prominence when, aged 20, he was appointed chief assistant engineer of his father's greatest achievement, the Thames Tunnel, which runs beneath the river between Rotherhithe and Wapping.
		Brunel worked out through mathematics and a series of trials that his broader gauge was the optimum railway size for providing stability and a comfortable ride to passengers, in addition to allowing for bigger carriages and more freight capacity.
		Brunel was already working on building the SS Great Eastern amongst other projects, but accepted the task in February 1855 of designing and building the War Office requirement of a temporary, pre-fabricated hospital that could be shipped to the Crimea and erected.
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	Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the Great Eastern Steamship
		Marc Isambard Brunel was born in Normandy, France in 1769.
		Brunel wanted his ship to be powered by three sets of steam engines; one set for the screw propellor at the stern and two sets for side paddle wheels.
		Brunel was only in his early fifies but his health had deteriorated under the stress of 18 hour days to the point he could no long go on.
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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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	Isambard Kingdom Brunel at AllExperts
		Brunel rose to prominence when, aged 20, he was appointed chief assistant engineer of his father's greatest achievement, the Thames Tunnel, which runs beneath the river between Rotherhithe and Wapping.
		Brunel worked out through mathematics and a series of trials that his broader gauge was the optimum railway size for providing stability and a comfortable ride to passengers, in addition to allowing for bigger carriages and more freight capacity.
		Brunel was included in the top 10 of the heavily publicised "100 Greatest Britons" TV poll conducted by the BBC and voted for by the public.
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	ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL
		Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born in Portsea on 9th April 1806 to an English mother (nee Kingdom) and a French father.
		Isambard himself nearly drowned in the second flooding of the tunnel and bankrupcy threatened Marc Brunel as he struggled to manage the dangerous and difficult conditions.
		Isambard was a work-a-holic who would readily work a 18 hour day and sleep in his office (Duke Street) or in his Britzka carriage.
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	Marc Isambard Brunel
		Brunel was a Frenchman, born in Hacqueville, Normandy, to a farming family.
		Brunel, who was better at design than at the actual running and maintenance of the equipment, commissioned a young engineer named Henry Maudslay to assist him, and eventually 44 machines were constructed for the block-making project.
		Brunel invented a sort of shield that supported the earth, allowing bricklayers to follow the diggers and build the tunnel as they went along.
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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.
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	Marc Isambard Brunel
		Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, FRS (April 25, 1769 – December 12, 1849) was a French -born engineer who settled in the United Kingdom.
		Brunel subsequently was bankrupted and served time in the King's Bench prison in Southwark.
		His most notable achievement was the Thames Tunnel, which was built for horsedrawn traffic but due to bankruptcy was first used by pedestrians, and now carries the East London Line of the London Underground.
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	I.K.Brunel
		Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born in Portsmouth, England in 1806.He was the son of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel who fled to America from the French Revolution before coming to England in 1799.
		On the 7th March 1833 at the age of 27, Brunel was appointed chief engineer to the G.W.R.(Great Western Railway), at Bristol,to bring the railway in from London.
		All of Brunel's ships had a mix of sails and engines, so that on days when there was no wind, they had engines to power them, but on windy days, the engines could be turned off to save the amount of fuel used.
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	Phillimore & Co Ltd Marc Isambard Brunel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849) nourished an extraordinary intellect, in spite of a tyrannical father.
		Until the age of 56, Marc Brunel was primarily an inventor, but Isambard took his father's and others' inventions when they were barely visible seeds and turned them into highly visible fruits in the shape of steam ships and railways.
		Marc Brunel worked in a relatively literate age and his frequently forthright comments were eagerly sought by reporters of many newly established daily papers.
	www.phillimore.co.uk /acatalog/info_1860774008nt.html (276 words)

	Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the engineers of the nineteenth century
		Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born in Portsmouth on 9 April 1806; there could hardly have been a better time to enter the world of engineering.
		Brunel's first major engineering task was rather more down to earth—he was called upon to rescue the Rotherhithe Tunnel that his father Sir (Marc) Isambard Brunel was digging under the Thames.
		Brunel's enthusiasm for new ideas led him seriously astray when he extended the Great Western Railway from Exeter to Newton Abbot, for he decided to use the atmospheric propulsion system that had been pioneered by Samuel Clegg and Joseph Samuda.
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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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	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.
		Marc Brunel was a French monarchist whose continuing residence in revolutionary France had made life there somewhat uncomfortable, and left at the earliest possible opportunity to become, briefly, official engineer to the city of New York.
		Isambard rose to prominence when, aged 20, he was appointed as the resident engineer of the Thames foot tunnel, his father's greatest achievement.
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	Wikinfo \| Isambard Kingdom Brunel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brunel made the controversial choice of using broad gauge (7 ft 0.25 in or 2.14 m) for the line.
		Another of Brunel's interesting though ultimately unsuccessful technical innovations was the Atmospheric railway, the extension of the GWR southward from Exeter towards Plymouth (technically the South Devon Railway (SDR), though supported by the GWR).
		Eventually, at the suggestion of Sir Marc, Isambard was strapped to a board, turned upside-down, and the coin was jerked free.
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	Bristol - Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This famous photograph of Brunel, standing in front of the massive anchor chains of the SS Great Eastern, was taken at Millwall Docks, London in November 1857 by Robert Howlett.
		During the second flooding of this tunnel Brunel was nearly killed and whilst recovering from this entered a competition to design a bridge across the gorge at Bristol.
		Brunel threatened to withdraw his application and by a margin of one vote Brunel was appointed to make the survey.
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	Isambard Kingdom Brunel
		Brunel was educated at the Lycee Henri - Quatre in Paris, France from the age of fourteen.
		Brunel submitted four designs this would seem not only to give them a choice but would have given them an idea of his ability; it also gave Brunel a better chance of obtaining the project.
		Brunel's final project was steamships, building the largest of its time then in the world the Great Western, it cut the journey from New York and back in half when it first sailed in 1837.
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		The son of an engineer (Marc Isambard Brunel), Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born in Portsmouth, England in 1806.
		Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the only son of the French civil engineer, Sir Marc Brunel, was born in Portsmouth on 9th April, 1806.
		Brunel, seeing retreat to be impossible, buttoned his coat, brought the skirts close round him, and placing himself firmly between the two lines of rail, the trains swept past, and left him unscathed.
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	Marc Isambard Brunel Summary
		Marc Isambard Brunel was born in Hacqueville, Normandy, France.
		He preferred the name Isambard, but is generally known to history as Marc to avoid confusion with his more famous son Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
		Brunel subsequently was bankrupted and served time in the King's Bench prison in Southwark.
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		Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849) nourished an extraordinary intellect, in spite of a tyrannical father.
		Until the age of 56, Marc Brunel was primarily an inventor, but Isambard took his father's and others' inventions when they were barely visible seeds and turned them into highly visible fruits in the shape of steam ships and railways.
		Marc Brunel worked in a relatively literate age and his frequently forthright comments were eagerly sought by reporters of many newly established daily papers.
	www.abebooks.de /search/sortby/3/an/Clements+/tn/+Marc+Isambard+Brunel (836 words)

	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.brunel-museum.org.uk /people_mb.asp (1177 words)

	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)

	Isambard Brunel
		Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born on April 9, 1806, in Portsmouth.
		His father, Marc Isambard Brunel, was a prominent engineer, and he determined that his son should follow in his footsteps.
		Brunel the younger was educated in France, and at the tender age of 20 he became resident engineer on his father's Thames Tunnel project.
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	Isambard Kingdom Brunel
		Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born in Portsmouth, 9th April 1806.
		He was the son of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel who fled to America from the French Revolution before coming to England in 1799.
		Brunel” from Bristol to London with stations at Bath, Chippenham, Swindon, Maidenhead and Reading with branch lines to Trowbridge and Bradford on Avon it received the Royal Assent.
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	Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British Engineers, Biography, History.
		Isambard Kingdom Brunel (April 9, 1806–September 15, 1859) was a British engineer, noted for the creation of the Great Western Railway and a series of famous steamships.
		The son of noted engineer Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, Isambard K. Brunel was born in Portsmouth, England on April 9, 1806.
		His father was working there on the block-making machinery of the Portsmouth Block Mills The young Brunel was sent to France to be educated at the College of Caen in Normandy and the Lycée Henri-Quatre in Paris.
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	Brunel, Marc Isambard
		Brunel fled to the USA in 1793 to escape the French Revolution.
		Brunel demonstrated that with specially designed machine tools 10 men could do the work of 100, more quickly, more cheaply, and yield a better product.
		Cheating partners and fire damage to the sawmills caused the business to fail and Brunel was imprisoned for debt in 1821.
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