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Name: Marc Isambard Brunel
Birth Date: 1769
Death Date: 1849
Nationality: French-English
Gender: Male
Occupations: engineer

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Biography of Marc Isambard Brunel
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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...


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Marc Isambard Brunel Summary
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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...
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Marc Isambard Brunel Information
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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...


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The Journal of Transport History
The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel
03/01/2004: 1,035 words, approx. 4 pages
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....
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The Economist (US)
Looking for Mr. Brunel. (Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
12/02/1989: 1,068 words, approx. 4 pages
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...
 


 

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