biography
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Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
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pronunciation:
[broonel]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1806–59)
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| biography:
| Engineer, born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, S England, UK, the son of Marc Brunel. He worked in his father's office, and helped to plan the Thames Tunnel, opened in 1843. He himself planned the Clifton Suspension Bridge (1829–31, completed 1864), and the Hungerford Suspension Bridge (1841–5) over the Thames. He designed the Great Western (1837), the first steamship built to cross the Atlantic, the Great Britain (1843), the first ocean screw-steamer, and the Great Eastern (1853–8), then the largest vessel ever built. He was also appointed engineer to the Great Western Railway (1833) and constructed many docks. |
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