Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) (original) (raw)

Biographical Material

• Biography by Robert Hunt in The Dictionary of National Biography (1886)
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel — the Little Giant by Robert Dugan (1953)
• A Biography with information about his father, another pioneering engineer
• A Brunel Chronology

Works

• The Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash
• The Wharncliffe Viaduct
• S.S. Great Western (first steamship in regular transatlantic service)
• S.S. Great Eastern
• Designed 1,000 bed pre-fabricated field hospital for the Crimean War (no image)
• Designs Paddington Station for the Great Western Railway

Brunel and the Visual Arts — Monuments, Portraits, Cartoons

• Portrait by John Callcott Horsley (1857)
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel Memorial by Baron Marochetti
• Brunel (1859 Harper’s Weekly)
• Photograph of Brunel standing before the giant launching-chains of the “Great Eastern” by Robert Howlett

Resources and Related material

• Bibliography

Victorian Web Technology Inventors

Last modified 12 January 2020