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 ).

* 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.

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 early 19th century, the behaviour and anatomy of the shipworm inspired the French engineer Marc Brunel, the father of the famous British engineer Isambard Brunel.

Mass production using interchangeable parts was first achieved in 1803 by Marc Isambard Brunel in cooperation with Henry Maudslay, and Simon Goodrich, under the management of ( with contributions by ) Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Bentham, the Inspector General of Naval Works at Portsmouth Block Mills at Portsmouth Dockyard, for the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic War.

* Isambard Kingdom Brunel ( 1806 – 1859 ) was a British engineer best known for the creation of the Great Western Railway, a series of famous steamships, including the first with a propeller, and numerous important bridges and tunnels.

* Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer

* Great ( film ), a British animated short about Isambard Kingdom Brunel

His sister Mary Elizabeth Horsley wed the famous British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1836.

* Isambard Kingdom Brunel ( 1806-1859 ), a British engineer

* Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer

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.

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

Three important landmarks of the district are Paddington station, designed by the celebrated engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and opened in 1847 ; St Mary's Hospital and Paddington Green Police Station ( the most important high-security police station in the United Kingdom ).

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, then aged twenty-nine, was appointed engineer.

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

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.

It was founded in 1966 and is named after the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

* 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

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.

When the resident engineer, William Armstrong, fell ill in April 1826 Marc's son Isambard Kingdom Brunel took over at the age of 20.

The clipper domination was challenged when the Great Western, designed by railway engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, began its first Atlantic service in 1837.

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 ).