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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
... born in 1806, the son of a distinguished French engineer, Sir Marc Brunel, who had come to England at the time of the French Revolution. Unlike most engineers of the time, Isambard ...
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NPG 978; Sir Marc Isambard Brunel ... NPG 978 Sir Marc Isambard Brunel by James Northcote oil on canvas, 1812-1813, dated 1813
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Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, FRS (25 April 1769 – 12 December 1849) was a French-born engineer who settled in the United Kingdom. He preferred the name Isambard, but is generally ...

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Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849), French-born British civil engineer. Born in Normandy, he was a naval officer before fleeing from the French Revolution to the United States, where he became a civil engineer and architect before going to England in 1799. There he built highly successful mass-production machines of his own design to manufacture pulley blocks for the British Admiralty. The most noted of his achievements was the construction, with his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel, of the first tunnel underneath the River Thames (1824-1843). See also Textiles: Knitting Machines.