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    Isambard Kingdom Brunel FRS MInstCE (/ˈɪzəmbɑːrd bruːˈnɛl/; 9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer who...
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    constructed the Thames Tunnel and was the father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Born in France, Brunel fled to the United States during the French Revolution...
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    Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern is a photograph taken by Robert Howlett in November 1857. It shows Brunel...
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  • England Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), English mechanical and civil engineer Isambard Brunel Junior (1837–1902), son of Isambard Kingdom Brunel Isambard...
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    Henry Marc Brunel (27 June 1842 – 7 October 1903) was an English civil engineer and the son of engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and grandson of civil engineer...
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  • 1966 and named after Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the Victorian engineer and pioneer of the Industrial Revolution. In June 1966, Brunel College of Advanced...
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    A bronze statue of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, also known as Brunel Monument or the Isambard Brunel Monument, by Carlo Marochetti, stands on the Victoria...
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  • Sophia Kingdom (15 February 1775 – 5 January 1855), later known as Lady Brunel, was the mother of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Her father was William Kingdom, a...
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    comprises the Engine House and the Tunnel Shaft, with rooftop garden. Isambard Kingdom Brunel worked with his father on the project from 1823 and was appointed...
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  • Marc Isambard Brunel (1769–1849), French-born engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), British engineer, son of Marc Isambard Brunel Sir Isambard Owen...
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  • English railway engineer. He worked under Isambard Kingdom Brunel for more than twenty years and, following Brunel's death, completed many of his projects...
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  • Brunel Bridge could be an informal or local reference to any one of several famous bridges in England built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, including: The...
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    Box Tunnel (category Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
    1841 for the Great Western Railway (GWR) under the direction of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the straight tunnel descends on a 1 in 100 gradient from its eastern...
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    in honour of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, founder of the Great Western Railway, and designer of the giant ship SS Great Eastern. The Brunel Awards were first...
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    gardens were designed by William Burn to be the retirement home of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. He discovered the area while surveying for the Great Western Railway...
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    Greater London in 1965. Paddington station, designed by the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel opened in 1847. It is also the site of St Mary's Hospital and the...
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    Bishop's Bridge (category Bridges by Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
    adjacent Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal. The original Isambard Kingdom Brunel built bridge was replaced in 2006. The name Bishop's Bridge Road...
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    to carry the A38 road. The Royal Albert Bridge was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Surveying started in 1848 and construction commenced in 1854....
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    Thames Tunnel (category Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
    between 1825 and 1843 by Marc Brunel, and his son, Isambard, using the tunnelling shield newly invented by the elder Brunel and Thomas Cochrane. The tunnel...
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    Great Western Railway (category Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
    completed between London and Bristol in 1841. It was engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who chose a broad gauge of 7 ft (2,134 mm)—later slightly widened...
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    birthplace of notable people such as author Charles Dickens, engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, former Prime Minister James Callaghan, actor Peter Sellers and...
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  • Beatles not on the list. Isambard Kingdom Brunel occupied the top spot in the polls for some time thanks largely to "students from Brunel University who have...
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  • Abolition of Slavery The Industrial Revolution Humanitarianism Isambard Kingdom Brunel Courbet and Millet Tolstoy Our Urge to Destruction God-given Genius...
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  • also known as "Kingdom", a professional Korean StarCraft player Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), English engineer Johnny Kingdom (1939–2018), English...
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    SS Great Western (category Ships designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
    SS British Queen went into service. Designed by British civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Great Western proved satisfactory in service and was the model...
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    Renkioi Hospital (category Isambard Kingdom Brunel buildings and structures)
    a pioneering prefabricated building made of wood, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel as a British Army military hospital for use during the Crimean...
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    from the ship SS Great Eastern, built by John Scott Russell and Isambard Kingdom Brunel and skippered by Sir James Anderson. More than halfway across,...
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    The Crystal Palace (category Greenhouses in the United Kingdom)
    of the exhibition building, comprising accomplished engineers Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Robert Stephenson, renowned architects Charles Barry and Thomas...
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    The next day, SS Great Western, designed by railway engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, arrived in New York. She left Liverpool on 8 April and overtook...
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    SS Great Eastern (category Ships designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
    sail-powered, paddle wheel and screw-propelled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by John Scott Russell & Co. at Millwall Iron Works on...
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