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Brunel
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the outstanding entrepreneurial Victorian engineer. He helped construct the Thames Tunnel, build the Great Western Railway and its terminus, Paddington Station, but his boldest endeavours were three gigantic ships.
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Historical BiographiesNotes
1 Andrew Mathewson and Derek Laval, Brunelās Tunnel . . . and where it led (Brunel Exhibition Rotherhithe: 1992) p8.
2 Celia Noble, The Brunels, Father & Son, (Cobden Sanderson, London: 1838) p11.
3 Noble: The Brunels, p13ā17.
4 LTC Rolt, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (Penguin, London: 1989, 4th ed), p28.
5 Rolt, Brunel, p30.
6 Noble: The Brunels, p24.
7 Now 98 Cheyne Row.
8 Adrian Vaughan, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Engineering Knight Errant (John Murray, London: 3rd ed, 2003) p6.
9 Vaughan, Engineering Knight Errant, p5; other authors, for example, LTC Rolt, have argued that Brunel mastered Euclid when he was just six years old.
10 Noble, The Brunels, p35-46.
11 Noble, The Brunels, p42.
12 Noble, The Brunels, p42.
13 Quoted in Vaughan, Engineering Knight Errant, p8.
14 Vaughan, Engineering Knight Errant, p8.
15 Noble, The Brunels, p45.
16 This connection was possibly made through Sophiaās family, since her grandfather was Thomas Mudge, the great English clockmaker.
17 Years later, Isambard would use one of these āinverted Vā engines in his ship the Great Britain.
18 Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Journal, Tuesday 10 May 1825, hereafter IKB/Journal.
19 Noble, The Brunels, p51.
20 At the point at which Trevithickās tunnel was abandoned, there was only 200 feet further to go, out of a total 1200 feet.
21 Tim Bryan, Brunel, The Great Engineer (Ian Allan Publishing, Surrey: 1999), p11.
22 IKB/ Journal, Wednesday 2 March 1825.
23 Mathewson and Laval, The Tunnel, p18.
24 Angus Buchanan, Brunel, The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (Hambledon and London, London: 2002) p24.
25 Richard Beamish, Memoir of the Life of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (1862), p241, quoted in Buchanan, Brunel, p24.
26 Vaughan, Engineering Knight Errant, p21.
27 Rolt, Brunel, p55.
28 Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Private Diary, 13 October 1827, hereafter IKB/ Priv Diary.
29 Richard Beamishās claim in his memoir of Marc Brunel; discussed by Adrian Vaughan, p24.
30 Rolt, Brunel p59.
31 IKB/ Priv Diary, 8 February 1828.
32 IKB/ Priv Diary, 6 December 1831, p218.
33 IKB/ Priv Diary 13 October 1827.
34 IKB/ Priv Diary 21 November 1827.
35 IKB/ Priv Diary, 21 November 1827.
36 IKB/ Priv Diary, 6 April 1829.
37 IKB/ Priv Diary, 13 October 1827.
38 IKB/ Priv Diary, 4 November 1827.
39 IKB/ Priv Diary, 6 and 7 May 1828.
40 The idea of building a bridge across the Avon Gorge originated in 1754, with a bequest in the will of Bristolian merchant William Vick, who left Ā£1,000 invested with instructions that when the interest had accumulated to Ā£10,000 it should be used for the purpose of building a stone bridge between Clifton Down and Leigh Woods, both of which were barely populated at the time. By the 1820s Vick's bequest was nearing Ā£8,000, but it was estimated that a stone b...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Birth and Revolution
- Education & Apprenticeship
- The Thames Tunnel
- From the Doldrums to Clifton Bridge
- Bristol
- Friendship and Marriage
- Global Vision of Transport
- Brunel Under Pressure
- Brunel Gets Famous (The Great Britain)
- Brunel Falls out of Love with Railways
- International Affairs
- The Great Ship
- Tragedy at Sea and at Home
- Notes
- Chronology
- Further Reading
- Picture Sources
- Index