Isambard kingdom brunel inventions

Victorian Britain is famed for championing innovation and invention, fuelled by vast mass production and industrialisation.

These capabilities were realised most brilliantly through the tunnels, bridges and ships of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the great engineer who sought to connect the world through his masterpieces in iron.

Here are 8 amazing facts about the extraordinary civil engineer.

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Isambard kingdom brunel death

Both his parents were imprisoned

Brunel’s parents, Marc Isambard Brunel and Sophia Kingdom, met in Rouen during the French Revolution. As a known royalist, Marc fled to New York. Sophia, who remained in Paris to finish studying, was suspected as a British spy and thrown in prison until the Revolution subsided.

The couple reunited in England and married in 1799.

In 1806, Sophia bore a son, Isambard Kingdom, who took his