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287 pages : 27 cm "In his lifetime, Isambard Kingdom Brunel towered over his profession. Today, he remains the most famous engineer in history, the epitome of the volcanic creative forces which brought about the Industrial Revolution - and brought modern society into being. Short-tempered, with a cutting wit and an almost unparalleled capacity for work - his vast achievements were the progeny of a restless, charismatic, forceful personality, of a refusal to accept second best, from people or from things." "Brunel's extraordinary talents were drawn out by some remarkable opportunities - above all his appointment as engineer to the new Great Western Railway at the age of 26 - but it was his nature to take nothing for granted, and to look at every project, whether it was the longest railway yet planned, or the largest ship ever imagined, from first principles. Brunel's originality was matched by his breadth of mind: excelling as an architect, surveyor, civil engineer, mechanical engineer, and ship designer - he was the Victorian age's answer to the Renaissance man. A hard taskmaster to those who served him, he ultimately sacrificed his own life to his work in his tragically early deat

Who reads Brunel : the Man Who Built the World?

Author

Brindle, Steven

Publisher

WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON; Orion Publishing Group, Limited

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780753821251

Category

history

Subjects

Engineering, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

3.93 / 5 (101 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13