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Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the greatest Victorian engineer, some might say one of the world's greatest of all time. Today Isambard Kingdom Brunel is perhaps best known for the creation of the Great Western Railway, nicknamed God's Wonderful Railway', which in 2010 celebrates its 175th anniversary, but he also pioneered the SS Great Britain, the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship, as well as numerous important bridges and tunnels. His designs revolutionised transport engineering, but without the utilitarianism of many of his modern-day successors. Much of Brunel's work combined the grace and elegance of classical art with modern technological thinking, which he pushed to the boundaries of what was possible in his day and then often went a further mile - mostly, but not always, with startling and resounding success. In Halsgrove's pocket-sized hardback series of great lives, renowned railway specialist Robin Jones re-tells the inspiring story of Brunel, engineer extraordinaire.
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Robin Jones is a widely published and highly respected journalist who specialises in heritage transportation and industrial archaeology subjects. Robin contributes news and feature material on a regular basis across a wide range of railway titles and has written many books on Britain's railway history.
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- PublisherPixz Books
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1906887756
- ISBN 13 9781906887759
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages64
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