Isambard Kingdom Brunel Through Time by John Christopher
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was Britain's greatest engineer, he was the man who built everything on a huge scale, he built Britain's biggest ship, some of Britain's most spectacular bridges, a tunnel under the Thames and the finest railway line in Britain, the London to Bristol route of the Great Western Railway. Everything he did was on a scale not seen before, not just in Britain, but in the world. Brunel left a legacy of industrial architecture and design, from the vaulted roof of Paddington station to the SS Great Britain, the first true ocean greyhound, from the Clifton Suspension Bridge to the Tamar Bridge, which bears his name on its approaches. His life was one of superlatives - bigger, wider, taller and faster. Nearly drowning in the Thames Tunnel, he eventually suffered a stroke aboard his Great Eastern, the world's largest vessel for almost half a century, and died two days before her maiden voyage. As the historian Dan Cruikshank put it, Brunel was quite simply 'a one-man Industrial Revolution'. Here, John Christopher tells the story of the man and his tunnels, bridges, railways, ships and buildings, with many new illustrations accompanying the old, showing the changes time has made to Brunel's greatest legacy - the things he designed and built that we still take for granted and use every day, over a century and a half since his death.-
Lundy Island Through Time
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Malvern Through Time
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Hull Through Time
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Bradford Through Time
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Scarborough and Whitby Railway Through Time
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Battersea Through Time
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The Somerset and Dorset Railway Through Time
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Silverstone Circuit Through Time
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Portsmouth Through Time
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Winchester Through Time
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Barking and Dagenham Through Time
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Plymouth Through Time
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In & Around Wigan Through Time
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Salford Through Time
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Norwich Through Time
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Manchester Ship Canal Through Time
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Inverness Through Time
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New Forest Through Time
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Dartmouth Through Time
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Tunbridge Wells Through Time
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Anglesey Through Time
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Chiswick Through Time
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Stoke Through Time
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Edinburgh Through Time
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London's East End Through Time
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The Birmingham Canal Navigations Through Time
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Paddington Station Through Time
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Rayleigh Through Time
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The Wirral Through Time
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Victoria Station Through Time
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Swanage & Around Through Time
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St Albans Through Time
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Bolton Through Time
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St Pancras Station Through Time
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Bermondsey & Rotherhithe Through Time
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Milton Keynes Through Time
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Exeter Through Time
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Leicester Through Time
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Otley Through Time
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King's Lynn Through Time
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Norfolk Through Time
John Christopher has written and edited a number of books on Engineering, Military History and Railway and Road Transport, specializing in the life and works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and being the series editor for Amberley’s Bradshaw’s Guides series. He has also appeared in Michael Portillo's Great British Railway Journeys television series. In between writing books, he is a balloon pilot and Land Rover fan. He lives in Gloucestershire.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781848689633 |
| ISBN 10 | 1848689632 |
| Title | Isambard Kingdom Brunel Through Time |
| Author | John Christopher |
| Series | Through Time |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Amberley Publishing |
| Year published | 2010-03-15 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |