Marc Isambard Brunel was born in Hacqueville, Normandy, France. He served as an officer in the French navy from 1786 to 1792. In 1793, he left revolutionary France for the United States because of his royalist sympathies. He practiced as a civil...

1769-1849 British civil engineer who built the world's first underwater tunnel, the Thames Tunnel in London. Born in France, Brunel fled to America as a royalist refugee in the aftermath of the French Revolution. He served as chief engineer of...

Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, FRS (25 April 1769 – 12 December 1849) was a French-born engineer who 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...

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...