Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) was an
During his career, Brunel achieved many engineering "firsts". He assisted the building of the first tunnel under a large river. He designed the , the first propeller-driven ocean-going iron ship, at the time (1843) the largest ship ever built.[1][2] He was the first designer of the Clifton Suspension Bridge. The bridge had a complicated history. It was a long span at a great height over the