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 ).

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.

Portland cement was used by the famous English engineer Marc Isambard Brunel several years later when constructing the Thames Tunnel.

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.

The whole railway including Temple Meads was the first one designed by the British engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

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.

Brunel also designed the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway, but this was not opened until 25 August 1863, nearly four years after his death.

A slightly revised design was made by William Henry Barlow and Sir John Hawkshaw ; it has a wider, higher and sturdier deck than Brunel intended, triple chains instead of double, and the towers were left as rough stone rather than being finished in Egyptian style.

In April 2006, the bridge was the centrepiece of the Brunel 200 weekend, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

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

Brunel was the second son of Jean Charles Brunel and Marie Victoire Lefebvre.

During his stay in Rouen, Brunel had met Sophia Kingdom, a young Englishwoman who was an orphan and was working as a governess.

In 1796, after taking American citizenship, Brunel was appointed Chief Engineer of the city of New York.

Whilst Brunel had been in America, Sophia Kingdom had remained in Rouen and during the Reign of Terror, she was arrested as an English spy and daily expected to be executed.

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.

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.

Brunel was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1814.

Carrying the Great Western Railway across the River Brent, the Wharncliffe Viaduct was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

A branch railway line from Southall railway station to the Brentford Dock on the Thames was also built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1856.

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.

In August 1837, for example, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the Engineer responsible for the Great Western Railway, appointed Daniel Gooch locomotive superintendent to the company ; and it was his responsibility to provide the locomotives, the accommodation for them and the running and the repair shops.

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.

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

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.

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.

From 1849 to 1853 was Brunel erecting an iron bridge of his own.

Gooch's earliest days with the company were a struggle to keep the miscellaneous collection of broad gauge steam locomotives ordered by Brunel working.

1858: After several failed attempts of launching the SS Great Eastern steam ship, Isambard Kingdom Brunel turns to Richard Tangye's more powerful hydraulic rams which are successfully employed in the launch.

Both Stephenson and Brunel said that a general purpose steam locomotive could not work such a gradient.

His literary work included treatises on the steam engine and on iron construction, biographical studies of famous engineers, including Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Sir William Fairbairn and Sir William Siemens, several books on musical subjects and on whist, and many papers for reviews and scientific periodicals.