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Hace 21 horas · Isambard Kingdom Brunel wanted to retire to the house now known as Brunel Manor, high above the Teignmouth Road on the outskirts of Torquay. But the great engineer never saw the house or its ...
Hace 2 días · The other bridge is a buttressed reimagining of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s masterpiece, completed in 1839 and sporting the widest, shallowest brick arches in the world. It was a feat of engineering that facilitated the transportation of people and produce from one side of the country to the other at unprecedented speed.
Hace 21 horas · Isambard Kingdom Brunel wanted to retire to the house now known as Brunel Manor, high above the Teignmouth Road on the outskirts of Torquay. But the great engineer never saw the house or its gardens, as they were not completed until after his death in 1859. The land was sold to new owners, who constructed Brunel Manor on the foundations.
Hace 2 días · But not everyone knows how it was constructed – and much less who was behind it. Up until now, most of the credit for the design of the landmark has gone to Victorian engineers, Sir John Wolfe Barry and Isambard Kingdom Brunel. They took over the design when the architect Horace Jones died one year into the building. It was finished in July 1894.
Hace 1 día · In this way the tunnel is made to “drag its slow length along”# to its termination, which Mr Brunel looks to in about two years. – Should the attempt be successfgul, it will be a proud addition to our national works, and the only structure of its kind in the world.” The Stamford Mercury, 21st May, 1824. *Father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Hace 1 día · Bristol served as the launching point in 1838 for Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Great Western, the second steamship to cross the Atlantic.
Hace 5 días · Britain built the first railway, the first iron bridge, the first underground system. Isambard Kingdom Brunel was voted the 2nd greatest Britain for his exploits, in transforming the country. But, if Brunel were alive today, would he find himself….
