The Brunel Museum is a small museum situated at the Brunel Engine House, Rotherhithe, London Borough of Southwark. The Engine House was designed by Sir...
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel FRS MInstCE (/ˈɪzəmbɑːrd ˈkɪŋdəm bruːˈnɛl/ IZZ-əm-bard KING-dəm broo-NELL; 9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) was a British civil...
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Sir Marc Isambard Brunel FRS FRSE (/bruːˈnɛl/, French: [maʁk izɑ̃baʁ bʁynɛl]; 25 April 1769 – 12 December 1849) was a French-British engineer who is most...
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Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern is a photograph taken by Robert Howlett in November 1857. It shows Brunel, the British...
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Thames Tunnel (category Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
between 1825 and 1843 by Marc Brunel, and his son, Isambard, using the tunnelling shield newly invented by the elder Brunel and Thomas Cochrane. The tunnel...
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Brunel University of London is a public research university located in the Uxbridge area of London, England. It is named after Isambard Kingdom Brunel...
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Henry Marc Brunel (27 June 1842 – 7 October 1903) was an English civil engineer and the son of engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and grandson of civil engineer...
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of Bristol College Brunel Manor, mansion near Torquay, Devon, England Brunel Museum, London Brunel University London, England Brunel Award, an international...
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"Remains of Brunel's Crystal Palace tower granted listed status". Inside Croydon. 24 September 2020. "Crystal Palace Museum". Crystal Palace Museum. "Plans...
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Royal Albert Bridge (redirect from Brunel truss)
the A38 road. The Royal Albert Bridge was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Surveying started in 1848 and construction commenced in 1854. The first...
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Fox, the committee overseeing its construction including Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and went from its organisation to the grand opening in just nine months...
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SS Great Eastern (category Ships designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
Great Eastern was an iron-hulled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by John Scott Russell & Co. at Millwall Iron Works on the River...
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Clifton Suspension Bridge (redirect from Brunel's Clifton Bridge)
Barlow and John Hawkshaw, based on an earlier design by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It is a Grade I listed building and forms part of the B3129 road. The idea...
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The NR Brunel typeface is the Network Rail standard for signing at Network Rail managed stations. This font is an evolution of the Brunel typeface designed...
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Trevor and Dyson, Tony, London Bridge: 2000 years of a river crossing, Museum of London Archaeology Service, ISBN 1-901992-18-7. Yee, Albert, London Bridge...
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SS Great Western (category Ships designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
went into service. Designed by British civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Great Western proved satisfactory in service and was the model for all...
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Sophia Kingdom (category Family of Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
February 1775 – 5 January 1855), later known as Lady Brunel, was the mother of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Her father was William Kingdom, a contracting agent...
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Tower Bridge (category Museums in the London Borough of Southwark)
Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry with the help of Henry Marc Brunel. It crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and is one of...
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Robert Pearson Brereton (section After Brunel)
railway engineer. He worked under Isambard Kingdom Brunel for more than twenty years and, following Brunel's death, completed many of his projects. Robert...
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Hudson Reporter. Retrieved 2009-09-29. "Thames Tunnel Construction". Brunel Museum. Archived from the original on 2008-06-14. Retrieved 2008-08-31. Thoreau...
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London Paddington station (category Isambard Kingdom Brunel railway stations)
main line station dates from 1854 and was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. As of the 2022–23 Office of Rail & Road Statistics, it is the second busiest...
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Box Tunnel (category Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
the Great Western Railway (GWR) under the direction of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the straight tunnel descends on a 1 in 100 gradient from its eastern end...
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SS Great Britain (category Ships designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
ship in the world from 1845 to 1853. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service...
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Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges (category Bridges by Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
lift access. The first Hungerford Bridge, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, opened in 1845 as a suspension footbridge. It was named after the then...
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The Imperial War Museum (IWM), currently branded "Imperial War Museums", is a British national museum. It is headquartered in London, with five branches...
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and former Swedish Seamen's Church Southwark Park Bacon's College Brunel Museum Printworks (London) "Canada Water Plaza". Southwark Council. Archived...
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industrial museums in London Brunel Museum Kew Bridge Steam Museum London Canal Museum Science Museum (London) Walthamstow Pump House Museum Other major...
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town of Bridgwater. The promoters had already approached Isambard Kingdom Brunel for his views as the former engineer of the B&ER, and by the time of the...
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Rotherhithe village, which contains various historic buildings including the Brunel Engine House at the south end of the Thames Tunnel. Canada Dock was the...
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Bristol Harbour (category Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
Redcliffe Quay and Redcliffe Caves Baltic Wharf marina Cumberland Basin & Brunel Locks The New Cut Netham Lock, entrance to the Feeder Canal Totterdown Basin...
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