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    Isambard Kingdom Brunel was an English civil engineer born in 1806 who made significant contributions to infrastructure projects in the UK during the Industrial Revolution. Some of Brunel's most notable achievements included building dockyards, the Great Western Railway, and steamships including the first transatlantic steamship. Brunel also designed important bridges and tunnels, including suspension bridges in Bristol, London, and Plymouth. He is considered one of the greatest engineering innovators of the 19th century.

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    Isambard Kingdom Brunel was an English civil engineer born in 1806 who made significant contributions to infrastructure projects in the UK during the Industrial Revolution. Some of Brunel's most notable achievements included building dockyards, the Great Western Railway, and steamships including the first transatlantic steamship. Brunel also designed important bridges and tunnels, including suspension bridges in Bristol, London, and Plymouth. He is considered one of the greatest engineering innovators of the 19th century.

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    ISAMBARD KINGDOM

    BRUNEL
    1806-1859

     CIVIL ENGINEER
    ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL
    1806-1859

    • He was born 9 April 1806 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England and died 15 September


    1859 (aged 53) Westminster, London, England.

    • He was an English civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific
    figures in engineering history, one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the
    greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution.
    ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL
    1806-1859
    • Brunel built dockyards, the Great Western Railway (GWR), a series of steamships including
    the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship, and numerous important bridges and tunnels.

    • Brunel worked for several years as an assistant engineer on the project to create a tunnel under
    London's River Thames between Rotherhithe and Wapping, with tunnellers driving a horizontal
    shaft from one side of the river to the other under the most difficult and dangerous conditions.

    The Thames
    Tunnel
    ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL
    1806-1859
    • Brunel is perhaps best remembered for designs for the  Suspension Bridge such as
    –  Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol
    – Hungerford Bridge in London
    –  Royal Albert Bridge Plymouth

    • Brunel designed the Royal Albert Bridge in 1855 for the Cornwall Railway
    ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL
    1806-1859
    • Legacy
    – A celebrated engineer in his era, Brunel remains revered today, as evidenced by numerous
    monuments to him. There are statues in London at Temple, Brunel University and Paddington
    station, and in Bristol, Plymouth, Swindon, Milford Haven and Saltash.
    – Brunel is credited with turning the town of Swindon into one of the fastest growing towns in Europe
    during the 19th century. 
    – Brunel's choice to locate the Great Western Railway locomotive sheds there caused a need for
    housing for the workers, which in turn gave Brunel the impetus to build hospitals, churches and
    housing estates in what is known today as the 'Railway Village'.
    W H Y A L L A N I S I M P O RTA N T I N
    ENGINEERING

     CIVIL ENGINEER

    CONCLUSION
    BIBLIOGRAPHY
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingd
    om_Brunel

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