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 ...

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.

Brunel, the son of French engineer Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, was sent to school in Paris in 1820 when he was 14. He was taught at the Institute of M Massin where his behaviour was rated “beyond ...

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 ...

IN MEMORY ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL BORN APRIL 9th 1806: DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPTEMBER 15th 1859. Above the main scenes are the initials IKB and at the top is Christ in Glory surrounded by angels.

Why couldn’t Americans figure out who Branagh was portraying, when in fact his character, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was perhaps one of the greatest Britons ever to have lived? Actually voted the second ...

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 ...

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 ...

Isambard Kingdom Brunel's work truly changed the way people lived during his lifetime and continue to make our lives better today! Back to top. The Industrial Revolution.