Isambard Kingdom Brunel, in front of the launching chains for the Great Eastern. [ Public domain ] Such is the case of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the subject of today’s Hardware Heroes piece.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel tells the story of his life. He shows how he became an engineer and tunneled through Box Hill to build the Great Western Railway.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel's creation was hidden within a modern brick road bridge over the Grand Union Canal near Paddington Station, central London. The structure, the earliest of eight surviving ...

A 19th Century engineering project by Isambard Kingdom Brunel has scuppered a long-awaited road widening scheme. Funding for the work in Starcoss, Devon, was allocated last month, but work has ...

One of the best-known engineers of the 19th Century - if not the best-known engineer of all time - Isambard Kingdom Brunel achieved greatness in railway, civil and maritime engineering. By Nick Smith ...

Brunel was a visionary who transformed the way we live, but behind his carefully cultivated public image lay anxiety and self-doubt Allowing nothing to stand in his way, Isambard Kingdom Brunel ...

Brunel's Eighth Wonder of the World restored: Grand entrance to world's first underwater tunnel will return to glory after 145 years. Thames Tunnel in south east London was built by legendary ...

A previously-unseen school report of legendary engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel reveals how his teachers had “brilliant expectations of his future”. The genius behind the ss Great Britain and ...

Isambard Kingdom Brunel is one of Britain's greatest-ever engineers. His first project was the Rotherhithe Shaft, the starting point for London's Thames Tunnel. The tunnel was the first in the ...

A lecture about the man who solved technical problems and designed and built railroads that crossed the United Kingdom; 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, April ... Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Man of Steel .

A 19th Century engineering project by Isambard Kingdom Brunel has scuppered a long-awaited road widening scheme. Funding for the work in Starcoss, Devon, was allocated last month, but work has ...