Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the son of Marc Isambard Brunel, a French engineer who escaped the revolutionary turmoil of France in 1793 by immigrating to the United States, where he became an American citizen and engineered several projects, including...

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) was a leading English civil engineer in the railway age with an original and unprejudiced approach to problems in railway and marine engineering. Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born on April 9, 1806, near Portsmouth,...

1806-1859 English engineer who designed England's Great Western Railway and built several of the era's great steamships. Brunel began his career as an engineer on the Thames River Tunnel project, headed by his father, Marc Brunel....

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) (pronounced /ˈɪzəmbɑrd ˈkɪŋdəm brʊˈnɛl/), was a British engineer. He is best known for the creation of the Great Western Railway, a series of famous steamships, and...

R. Angus Buchanan, The Life and Times of lsambard Kingdom Brunel, Hambledon Press, London (2002), 318 pp., £20.00. Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a 'little giant' of engineering whose works, like the Great Western Railway and the SS Great Eastern, have assumed iconic status....

Looking for Mr Brunel ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL, pictured famously with a cigar in his mouth and mud on his trousers, probably spent more time talking to parliamentary committees than designing railways. Many of the great civil engineering projects of the nineteenth century...

Engineering genius Isambard Kingdom Brunel built modern marvels of the 19th century, powered by a deep personal drive.At the beginning of the ambitious Victorian era in England, he envisioned newfangled train systems and steamships that could slice travel time, and meticulously planned how to build...