Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English Civil Engineer
Brunel standing before the launching chains of the Great Eastern photographed by Robert Howlett, 1857. The photographer posed the engineer in front of the giant chains that were wound around the huge checking drums to serve as restraints in the launching. A man of modest stature and strength but of great nervous energy, Brunel was seldom seen in public without a cigar and the cigar box he carried on a strap over his shoulder. The pose and expression convey self-assurance and determination, and the mud-spattered trousers and boots show a man of action involved in all the aspects of the job. Isambard Kingdom Brunel (April 9, 1806 - September 15, 1859) was an English mechanical and civil engineer who built dockyards, the Great Western Railway, a series of steamships including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship and numerous important bridges and tunnels. His designs revolutionized public transport and modern engineering. . Brunel, a heavy smoker, suffered a stroke in 1859, just before the Great Eastern made her first voyage to New York (August 30 ). He died ten days later at the age of 53.
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