A scale model of the tunnelling shield at the Brunel Museum at Rotherhithe

An engine house on the Rotherhithe side, which now houses the Brunel Museum, was also constructed to house machinery for draining the tunnel.

Nearby in Rotherhithe, the original Brunel Engine House is open to visitors as the Brunel Museum.

Key elements of which include the Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed Clifton Suspension Bridge and Temple Meads terminus ; the latter served from 2002 to 2009 as the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, but is now closed pending a planned move to London.

Much of the local transport infrastructure including the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the original Temple Meads railway station — now used as the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum — were designed or built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

On 9 August 2010, Eagle Rock Entertainment released Live – The Early Years in the UK as a DVD compilation that includes Fusion – Live in London ( 1976 ) along with never before released live performances at Brunel University ( 1973 ) and on a German TV show Rockpalast ( 1974 ).

Until 1900 civil engineering projects were generally managed by creative architects, engineers, and master builders themselves, for example Vitruvius ( first century BC ), Christopher Wren ( 1632 – 1723 ), Thomas Telford ( 1757 – 1834 ) and Isambard Kingdom Brunel ( 1806 – 1859 ).

* September 15 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer ( b. 1806 )

* April 9 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer ( d. 1859 )

* July 26 – August 10 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel ’ s iron steamship Great Britain makes the Transatlantic Crossing from Liverpool to New York, the first screw propelled vessel to make the passage.

* Alfred Arthur Brunel de Neuville ( 1852 – 1941 ), painter

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

The university's origins lie in Acton Technical College, which was split into two in 1957 – Acton Technical College continued to cater for technicians and craftsmen, and the new Brunel College of Technology ( named after Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the British engineer ) was dedicated to the education of chartered engineers.

Uxbridge, Hillingdon was chosen to house the new buildings, and work hadn ’ t even started before the Ministry of Education officially changed the College ’ s status: it was officially named Brunel College of Advanced Technology in 1962 – the tenth Advanced Technology College in the country, and the last to be awarded this title.

In the financial year ended 31 July 2011, Brunel had a total income ( including share of joint ventures ) of £ 178. 5 million ( 2009 / 10 – £ 169. 47 million ) and total expenditure of £ 172. 36 million ( 2009 / 10 – £ 163. 79 million ).

During the 2010 / 11 financial year Brunel had a capital expenditure of £ 18. 8 million ( 2009 / 10 – £ 6. 63 million ).

At year end Brunel had endowment assets of £ 2. 01 million ( 2009 / 10 – £ 1. 59 million ), reserves of £ 140. 31 million ( 2009 / 10 – £ 130. 83 million ) and total net assets of £ 177. 46 million ( 2009 / 10 – £ 170. 2 million ).

In the RAE Brunel was ranked 37 – 39 ( joint ) for Research Power.

* Isambard Kingdom Brunel ( 1806 – 1859 ), engineer, son of Marc Isambard Brunel and Sophia Kingdom ( also buried here )

* Marc Isambard Brunel ( 1769 – 1849 ), engineer, father of Isambard

When Brunel was proposing to build SS Great Western for the 3, 500-mile transatlantic passage to New York, at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Lardner stated that: As the project of making the voyage directly from New York to Liverpool, it was perfectly chimerical, and they might as well talk of making the voyage from New York to the moon … 2, 080 miles is the longest run that a steamer could encounter – at the end of that distance she would require a relay of coals.

Based on his observations of how the shipworm's valves simultaneously enable it to tunnel through wood and protect it from being crushed by the swelling timber, Brunel designed an ingenious modular iron tunnelling framework — a tunnelling shield — which enabled workers to tunnel successfully through the highly unstable river bed beneath the Thames.

St. Mary's Church is at the centre of the old town of Rotherhithe village, which contains various historic buildings including the Brunel Engine House at the south end of the Thames Tunnel.

In 1825 Marc Isambard Brunel began work on the Thames Tunnel, intended to link Rotherhithe with Wapping.

In 1823 Brunel produced a plan for a tunnel between Rotherhithe and Wapping, which would be dug using his new shield.

In 1920 the short-lived company Minerva Films was founded in London by the actor Leslie Howard ( also producer and director ) and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel.

Railway development in the 19th century resulted in a spate of bridge building including Blackfriars Railway Bridge and Charing Cross ( Hungerford ) Railway Bridge in central London, and the spectacular railway bridges by Isambard Kingdom Brunel at Maidenhead Railway Bridge, Gatehampton Railway Bridge and Moulsford Railway Bridge.

In 1920 Howard and his friend Adrian Brunel founded the short-lived company Minerva Films in London ; Howard was producer and actor, and Brunel the story editor.

When Brunel arrived from America he immediately travelled to London and made contact with Sophia.

The other notable local construction by Brunel is the Wharncliffe Viaduct which carries the Great Western Railway across the River Brent towards London and which was Brunel's first major structural design.

Today, Hillingdon is home to Heathrow Airport and Brunel University, and is the second largest of the 32 London boroughs.

He surveyed the entire length of the route between London and Bristol himself, with the help of many, including his solicitor Jeremiah Osborne of Bristol law firm Osborne Clarke who on one occasion rowed Brunel down the River Avon himself to survey the bank of the river for the route.

* Buchanan, R. Angus ( 2002 ) Brunel: The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Hambledon and London, ISBN 1-85285-331-X

Brunel University ( informally Brunel ) is a public research university located in Uxbridge, London, United Kingdom.

Langley railway station, which includes a Brunel period building, is on the Great Western Main Line to London Paddington.

Jade played many pub, club and college gigs in London in 1969, playing at Brunel University, West London College in Cricklewood, The Pied Bull in Islington, West Hampstead Country Club, another college in Virginia Water and many more in 1969.

Chippenham railway station is on the Great Western Main Line and is served by services between London Paddington and the West Country and is famous for its railway arches and other buildings engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel as part of the Great Western Railway development.

Sir Richard Sykes holds a degree from the King's College London, and a PhD in Microbial Biochemistry from the University of Bristol as well as number of honorary degrees, including ones from the universities of Birmingham, Brunel, Cranfield, Edinburgh, Hertfordshire, Huddersfield, Hull, Leeds, Leicester, Madrid, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield Hallam, Sheffield, Strathclyde, Surrey, Warwick and Westminster.

Championed by fellow engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Bazalgette was appointed chief engineer of the Commission's successor, the Metropolitan Board of Works, in 1856 ( a post which he retained until the MBW was abolished and replaced by the London County Council in 1889 ).

It should not be confused with the nearby but earlier and much more historic Thames Tunnel, designed and built under the supervision of Marc Isambard Brunel and his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel, which is currently used by London Overground for the East London Line.

The tunneling itself started in April and finished in December and was bored through a fortuitously stable layer of the London Clay that lay 22 feet ( 6. 7 m ) below the river bed, and below the soft alluvial deposits that had so plagued the construction by Brunel of the earlier Thames Tunnel a few miles further downstream.