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.

Other talented men were starting to make their marks, such as his son Robert, his pupil Joseph Locke and finally Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

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.

* Iron Duke is the name of a supervillain character in the Silver Age Sentinels roleplaying game, based in part on 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 ).

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the British engineer and railway builder, introduced the idea of a circular bar into the Swindon station pub in order that customers were served quickly and did not delay his trains.

* 1847 – 48: Isambard Kingdom Brunel's South Devon Railway between Exeter and Newton Abbot, England ()

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

* July 19 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel's is launched from Bristol ; it will be the first iron-hulled, propeller-driven ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

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

* Isambard Kingdom Brunel begins work on the Great Eastern passenger steamer.

* 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.

* Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English engineer

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.

* 1838 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel's, the first purpose-built transatlantic steamship, inaugurates the first regular transatlantic steamship service.

Between 1841 and 1842, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Swindon Works was built for the repair and maintenance of locomotives on the Great Western Railway ( GWR ).

Stephenson took this precaution because of a recent fire on the Great Western Railway at Uxbridge, London, where Isambard Kingdom Brunel's bridge caught fire and collapsed.

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 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.

Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the bridge is a grade I listed building and forms part of the B3129 road.

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

Category: Bridges of Isambard Kingdom Brunel

The companies reused the Thames Tunnel, built by Marc and Isambard Kingdom Brunel between 1825 and 1843.

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

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

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

It was engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who chose a broad gauge of but, from 1854, a series of amalgamations saw it also operate standard-gauge trains ; the last broad-gauge services were operated in 1892.

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.

The two greatest Britons, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Winston Churchill, were featured as main characters in the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 Olympics respectively, played by Kenneth Branagh and Timothy Spall, each of them reading a monologue from William Shakespeare's The Tempest.

The musical piece played during the torch lighting ceremony was entitled " Caliban's Dream ", and Caliban's monologue from Act 3, Scene ii was quoted by Kenneth Branagh in character as Isambard Kingdom Brunel at the start of the Industrial Revolution set piece.

In 1835 Anthony Hill, owner of the Plymouth Iron Works, asked his friend Isambard Kingdom Brunel, to estimate the cost of building a railway from Merthyr to Cardiff and to Bute Docks.

One of Britain's greatest engineers, Isambard Kingdom Brunel died before he could take up the post ( he was vice-president from 1850 ).

In 1841 Isambard Kingdom Brunel introduced iron containers to move coal from the vale of Neath to Swansea Docks.

* The SS Great Britain, one of the first iron ships and designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was on its way from Liverpool to New York in 1846, when it ran aground during bad weather in Dundrum Bay.

* 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.

On January 31, 1858, the largest ship of that time, the SS Great Eastern designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was launched from Napier Yard, the shipyard leased by Messrs J Scott Russell & Co.

In 1886 Isambard Kingdom Brunel's, originally a passenger vessel but later converted as a coal trader departed from Penarth Dock on what would become its final voyage.

It is recorded that Marc Isambard Brunel suggested a road tunnel when designing the Birkenhead docks and from the 1850s a railway tunnel under the Mersey was proposed several times.

By coincidence, in 1888, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's famous ship the SS Great Eastern was broken up on the nearby shoreline, and many artefacts from the ship were auctioned off as it was being dismantled.

It was partially constructed from Barlow rail which had previously been used on Isambard Kingdom Brunel's South Wales Railway.

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.