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[[Image:I.K.Brunel.jpg|thumb|right|Isambard Kingdom Brunel]]'''Isambard Kingdom Brunel''' (1806–1859), was a leading British civil engineer, famed for his bridges and dockyards, and especially for the construction of the first major British [[railway]], the [[Great Western Railway]], and for inventing the modern iron ship.  

[[Image:I.K.Brunel.jpg|thumb|right|Isambard Kingdom Brunel]]'''Isambard Kingdom Brunel''' (1806–1859), was a leading British civil engineer, famed for his bridges and dockyards, and especially for the construction of the first major British [[railway]], the [[Great Western Railway]], and for inventing the modern iron ship.  

==Career==

==Career==

He was the only son of Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849),  a royalist who fled the French Revolution and built a career as a mechanical engineer in [[London]].<ref>Father and son were both called Isambard, an old family name.</ref> The father is best known for the Thames Tunnel, the first major underwater tunnel.<ref>See Thames Tunnel Company, ''An explanation of the works of the tunnel under the Thames from Rotherhithe to Wapping'' (1840) online at [http://books.google.com/books?id=KH8HAAAAQAAJ&dq=intitle:tunnel&num=30&as_brr=1]</ref>  The son at age 14 was sent to France for schooling, but failed the admission test for the Ecole Polytechnique, studied watchmaking in Paris; he returned to London to apprentice with his father. He was badly injured in an 1828 accident on the Thames Tunnel project.

He was the only son of Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849),  a royalist who fled the French Revolution and built a career as a mechanical engineer in [[London]].<ref>Father and son were both called Isambard, an old family name.</ref> The father is best known for the Thames Tunnel, the first major underwater tunnel.<ref>See Thames Tunnel Company, ''An explanation of the works of the tunnel under the Thames from Rotherhithe to Wapping'' (1840) online at [https://books.google.com/books?id=KH8HAAAAQAAJ&dq=intitle:tunnel&num=30&as_brr=1]</ref>  The son at age 14 was sent to France for schooling, but failed the admission test for the Ecole Polytechnique, studied watchmaking in Paris; he returned to London to apprentice with his father. He was badly injured in an 1828 accident on the Thames Tunnel project.

==Bridges==

==Bridges==

* Fox, Stephen.  ''Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships.'' 2003. 512 pp.   

* Fox, Stephen.  ''Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships.'' 2003. 512 pp.   

* Gordon, John Steele. ''A Thread Across the Ocean: the heroic story of the transatlantic cable'' (2002)

* Gordon, John Steele. ''A Thread Across the Ocean: the heroic story of the transatlantic cable'' (2002)

* Nokes, George Augustus. ''A History of the Great Western Railway'' 1895 - 373 pages [http://books.google.com/books?id=VWzePXbXTvQC&pg=PA87&dq=%22Isambard+Kingdom+Brunel%22&num=30&as_brr=1 online at books.google.com]

* Nokes, George Augustus. ''A History of the Great Western Railway'' 1895 - 373 pages [https://books.google.com/books?id=VWzePXbXTvQC&pg=PA87&dq=%22Isambard+Kingdom+Brunel%22&num=30&as_brr=1 online at books.google.com]

* Pugsley, Sir Alfred.  ''The Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel,'' edited by (1976) 215pp, engineering details*Rolt,  L.T.C. ''Isambard Kingdom Brunel'' (1958) , the standard biography, 345pp

* Pugsley, Sir Alfred.  ''The Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel,'' edited by (1976) 215pp, engineering details*Rolt,  L.T.C. ''Isambard Kingdom Brunel'' (1958) , the standard biography, 345pp

* Vaughan, Adrian.  ''Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Engineering Knight-Errant'' (2003)

* Vaughan, Adrian.  ''Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Engineering Knight-Errant'' (2003)