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A comprehensive look at Brunel's most famous and his lesser-known achievements. This remarkable book takes each of his triumphs and explores them in historical context, as well as from engineering and architectural point of view. An excellent 'gazetteer' gives the reader a chance to go out and folow Brunel's engineering trail. Over 80 diagrams and 60 photographs bring the subject to life.… (plus d'informations)
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"I hope you make Brunel your hero" Prince Philip
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In the years following the first hardback edition of Brunel's Britain there have been numerous developments in the Brunel saga leading up to Brunel 200 (a partnership initiative led by Bristol Cultural Development Partnership) - a celebration of the life, work and legacy of Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 2006. - preface to paperback edition
England's architectural heritage from castle to cottage conjures up an arcadian scene which has no room for the indecencies of technology, but the latter half of the eighteenth century was the gestation period for a new architecture which changed the face of England in a mere hundred years. - Introduction
Lady Gladwyn, the great grand-daughter of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and grand-daughter of Florence Mary Brunel,suggested in a paper presented to a joint meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers and Societe des Ingenieurs Civils de France, that to differentiate between the father and son might be done by referring to Marc Isambard and Isambard Kingdom. - Chapter 1
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A comprehensive look at Brunel's most famous and his lesser-known achievements. This remarkable book takes each of his triumphs and explores them in historical context, as well as from engineering and architectural point of view. An excellent 'gazetteer' gives the reader a chance to go out and folow Brunel's engineering trail. Over 80 diagrams and 60 photographs bring the subject to life.
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