The Brunel campus ( especially those buildings in the 1960s ' Brutalist ' architectural style ) has appeared in several films, most famously in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, large parts of which were filmed on campus.

Its sister group, the Fountain Area Residents Association ( FARA ), covers residents to the south of West Green Road, namely those in Kirkton Road, Roslyn Road, Seaford Road, Elmar Road, Turner Avenue, Brunel Walk, Avenue Road and Braemar Road.

His efforts were augmented by those of Marc Isambard Brunel, who designed most of the machines, and Henry Maudslay, the mechanic who built the machines and became a prominent machine tool builder.

Until 1900, projects were generally managed by creative architects and engineers themselves, among those for example Christopher Wren, Thomas Telford and Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

* Brunel used detachable tool bits held in tool holders very similar to those use now on general purpose lathes.

Brunel was present when Stephenson raised the girders of his Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait in the same year.

Brunel in 1832 surveyed a line well to the east of its present track, but due to lack of finance the scheme was suspended and he withdrew.

The promoters had approached Isambard Kingdom Brunel for his views as the former engineer of the B & ER and he was then engaged to make a preliminary survey the alternative routes towards the B & ER.

The large diameter wheels used in stage coaches gave better ride quality over rough ground, and Brunel originally intended to have his passenger carriages carried in the same way – on large diameter wheels placed outside the bodies of the carriages.

John Scott Russell ( 9 May 1808, Parkhead, Glasgow – 8 June 1882, Ventnor, Isle of Wight ) was a Scottish naval engineer who built the Great Eastern in collaboration with Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and made the discovery that gave birth to the modern study of solitons.

In 1837, Brunel recruited Daniel Gooch and gave him the job of rectifying the situation.

Bentham was a friend of Isambard Brunel, so it is possible that he had some influence on Brunel's adoption of longitudinal, strengthening bulkheads in the lower deck of the SS Great Britain.

While Brunel was building the broad-gauge Great Western Railway, Lardner carried out some experiments with the company ’ s flagship locomotive, North Star.

Holiday's stained glass work can be found all over Britain but some of his best is at Westminster Abbey ( the Isambard Kingdom Brunel memorial window, 1868 ), St. Luke ’ s church in Kentish Town and St. Mary Magdalene in Paddington ( 1869 ).

The roster is made up of some the most well known and respected names in the instrumental jazz / rock / fusion world, including Steve Smith, Bill Connors, Bunny Brunel, Steve Khan, Michael Landau, Joe Zawinul and Greg Howe.

It has been claimed that the board of the Great Western Railway did not believe that the arches would stay up under the weight of the trains and ordered Brunel to leave the wooden formwork used to construct the arches in place.

This letter bears more weight towards confirming that Hawes was the one who introduced Cooke to Brunel, especially when one reads the letter Cooke himself wrote Hawes wife Sophia on May 30, 1838 about the propitious meetings he had with her brother Brunel and the agreement ultimately that would lead to the instance of the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph system installation on the Great Western Railway, and then subsequently, what would become known as the London and Blackwall Railway.

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

Marc Isambard Brunel ( father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel ), with the help of Henry Maudslay and others, designed 22 types of machine tools to make the parts for the blocks used by the Royal Navy.

George Stephenson, with his work on the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, paved the way for the railway engineers who were to follow, such as his son Robert, his assistant Joseph Locke who went on to carry out much work on his own account and Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

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 ).

The commission in charge of the exhibition had held an international competition to design a building for the exhibition, but it rejected all submissions and came up with designs of its own ( reputedly by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Thomas Leverton Donaldson ) for a brick building in the rundbogenstil.

The original terminal station was built in 1839-41 for the Great Western Railway ( GWR ), the first passenger railway in Bristol, and was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the railway's engineer.

For his first railway, Brunel chose to use the broad gauge for this line.

During the summer of 1799 Brunel was introduced to Henry Maudslay, a talented machine tool maker who had been a manager for Joseph Bramah, and had recently started his own business.

Maudslay made working models of the machine for making pulley blocks, and Brunel approached Samuel Bentham, the Inspector General of Naval Works.

Unfortunately for Brunel, the Admiralty vacillated over payment, despite that fact that Brunel had spent more than £ 2, 000 of his own money on the project.

Brunel was a notable mechanical engineer, and did much to develop sawmilling machinery, undertaking contracts for the British Government at Chatham and Woolwich dockyards, building on his experience at the Portsmouth Block Mills.

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.

It was originally built for the Great Western Railway under the direction of the GWR's engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

It is also asserted that Brunel failed to account for atmospheric refraction and the effect is visible a few days too early.

:... I have found no documentary evidence for the often-repeated story that Brunel aligned the Box Tunnel so that the rising sun shone through it on his birthday, even though careful examination shows that it could indeed do so, and it is certainly a good story.

After Nightingale sent a plea to The Times for a government solution to the poor condition of the facilities, the British Government commissioned Isambard Kingdom Brunel to design a prefabricated hospital which could be built in England and shipped to the Dardanelles.

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.

In the late 1990s Brunel devised a 10-year, £ 250 million Masterplan for the campus.

Brunel students have access to specialist laboratories for electronic imaging, bioprocessing and experimental techniques ; flight, driving and train simulators ; a 3-D body scanner ; an MRI scanner ; motion-capture equipment ; an occupational therapy suite ; sports and performing arts facilities ; and academic archives in cult film and contemporary writing.

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

Bus route U2 serves Hillingdon, operating between Uxbridge station and Brunel University.

It is part of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, surveyed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1832, who suggested a route well to the east.

The great railway engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel used a britzka as his travelling office while surveying the route of the Great Western Railway, carrying with him his drawing board, outline plans, engineering instruments, fifty of his favourite cigars and a pull-out bed.

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 ).

In Britain the Great Western Railway, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, pioneered broad gauge from 1838 with a gauge of 7 ft 0¼ in.

He preferred the name Isambard, but is generally known to history as Marc to avoid confusion with his more famous son Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

In January 1792, Brunel's frigate paid off its crew, and Brunel returned to live with his relatives in Rouen.

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

It was designed by Joseph Paxton with support from structural engineer Charles Fox, the committee overseeing its construction including Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and went from its organisation to the grand opening in just nine months.

In 1957 Brunel College of Technology separated from Acton Technical College with a focus on the education of engineers.

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

Dessert Company on Brunel Drive closed in March 2000 with the loss of 700 jobs when Laurens received the Tesco order which they had supplied.

Kennet Mouth with bridge of the Great Western Railway by Brunel, Reading, Berkshire | Reading

Lardner became involved in a number of ill-advised public disagreements with Isambard Kingdom Brunel regarding technical matters, in which he came off the worse.

Brunel was proved right when the Great Western steamed into New York harbour with 200 tons of coal to spare.

While working on the Britannia Bridge Grove came into contact with Robert Stephenson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Sir Charles Barry and other eminent visitors to the works.

Over three hundred competitors entered, and this time Miss Kitty Brunel, driving an AC Ace, was the driver with the fewest penalties.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel lowered a diving bell from a boat to repair the hole at the bottom of the river, throwing bags filled with clay into the breach in the tunnel's roof.

The founding members of The Libertines, Peter Doherty and Carl Barat, met when Barat was studying drama at Brunel University in Uxbridge and sharing a flat in Richmond with Amy-Jo Doherty, Peter's elder sister.

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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.