#isambard kingdom brunel

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I feel like we've all seen this iconic photograph of Isambard Kingdom Brunel in front of the launching chains of SS Great Eastern, but did you know there were other photographs of Brunel from the same occasion? Less famous outtakes, as it were.

Cool picture of the machinery, awkward Isambard (who looks all of his five feet tall here).

I like this one a lot though: real sassiness and sensuality in that pose, and we see more of his watch chain ornaments.

[zippocreed501]

Isambard Kingdom Brunel - the first Steampunk

[adamburt1984]

Happy (Late) Birthday to Isambard Kingdom Brunel (2nd Greatest Briton)

[chalkskyline]

Railway Village alley, Swindon, U.K., December 2023

[neonwizardheehee]

Idk if this is a me-only post for the interests are wild spread but here me out:

Scar's S8 Hermitcraft tycoon outfit:

(Isambard Kingdom Brunel with his massive hat)

[sallybarnett]

A fabulous illustration project to be involved with. Love working with the SS Great Britain Trust, they are such a passionate team of incredible people and the opportunity to visit the ship is wonderful for someone like me who loves to explore, like any child or adult child (me) would love to do. If you visit Bristol, make sure the SS Great Britain is at the top of your ‘to do’ list.

[insidecroydon]

Pioneering Croydon cricketer who led the way against Australia

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A summer of Test cricket is little more than a week away, with the Ashes to come next month. Here DAVID MORGAN delves back 200 years into the archives to a time when the England team did actually include the world’s best wicketkeeper… Stumper: Croydon-born Tom Lockyer was the finest wicketkeeper of his era Little did the gathering at the service in Croydon Parish Church on…

[victoriansvilevictorians]

https://www.patreon.com/posts/advantages-of-75950904

Disaster under the Thames, and how we neatly lost Brunel. A free read.

[chaoticgoth]

Going full tourist in Bristol pt2

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"BERTHA is a nickname believed to have been coined about 1970, before which this vessel had no recorded name," per National Historic Ships UK.

Obsessed with her: built in 1844 and possibly the oldest extant steam vessel, her working career as a drag boat clearing sediment spanned from 1844 to 1968. 127 years! As a working vessel!

Here she is in a 1968 photograph from an archived maritime history database, which has the following information:

It’s unknown how long the [canal] committee took to buy the machine but it was certainly in operation by 1844. [Isambard Kingdom] Brunel designed a similar one for Bristol in 1843: larger but mechanically similar and operating on the same principle.

[...] Still operational, British Rail presented her to Exeter Maritime Museum in 1964, just before trying to sell the docks to the Borough of Bridgwater in 1965.

She didn't have a screw propeller or paddle, but moved along chains while plowing up silt, as shown in this miserably tiny photo:

I can't readily find a reference to this steam dragger and Isambard Kingdom Brunel (who was famous for much more monumental projects); and I feel like Bertha's location and small size is what helped preserve her. I wish she had a better museum environment—real 1840s steam technology!

[fipindustries]

fuck it im going full traditionalist for a second here

the world was an objectively better place when corporate art looked like this

when new technology looked like this

when goverment buildings looked like this

when political cartoons looked like this

life has gotten better in innumerable countless ways compared to the past but it has also gotten aesthetically fucking ugly to look at

[gollancz]

We are thrilled and delighted to reveal the cover for HIGH VAULTAGE, the first novel from @victoriocity, coming in 2024.

1887. London, but not as you know it. The sprawling, chaotic metropolis of Even Greater London spreads across the southern half of England. The immense Tower casts electricity through the sky, powering the mind-boggling mechanisms of the city. The engineer-army of Isambard Kingdom Brunel swarms across the capital, building, demolishing, and rebuilding whatever they see fit. Queen Victoria is recovering nicely from her eleventh assassination, ruling with the dignity that comes from striking terror into anyone who sees the unholy union of human and machine that one has become. And at the heart of all this sits the country's first Private Investigation Agency. Archibald Fleet (formerly of Scotland Yard, currently administratively deceased) and Clara Entwhistle (formerly of Harrogate, currently intermittent crime journalist) hoped things would pick up quickly for their new enterprise. No-one is taking them seriously, but their break will come soon. Definitely. Probably. Meanwhile, police are baffled by a series of impossible bank robberies. With no trace left of the thieves, and nothing to connect each break-in to the next, their resources are absorbed by the case. Which means that when a woman witnesses a kidnapping, Fleet-Entwhistle Private Investigations is the only place she can turn for help. They're more than happy to oblige! But why would this man be a target for kidnappers? As Clara and Fleet dig into the mystery, things go deeper than they could ever have anticipated . . .

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[richwall101]

Construction of The Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol

The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Avon Gorge and the River Avon, linking Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset. Since opening in 1864, it has been a toll bridge, the income from which provides funds for its maintenance. The bridge is built to a design by William Henry Barlow and John Hawkshaw, based on an earlier design by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It is a Grade I listed building and forms part of the B3129 road.

The idea of building a bridge across the Avon Gorge originated in 1753. Original plans were for a stone bridge and later iterations were for a wrought iron structure. In 1831, an attempt to build Brunel's design was halted by the Bristol riots, and the revised version of his designs was built after his death and completed in 1864. Although similar in size and design, the bridge towers are not identical, the Clifton tower having side cut-outs, the Leigh tower more pointed arches atop a 110-foot (34 m) red sandstone-clad abutment. Roller-mounted "saddles" at the top of each tower allow movement of the three independent wrought iron eyebar chains on each side when loads pass over the bridge. The bridge deck is suspended by 162 vertical wrought-iron rods in 81 matching pairs.

[centuriespast]

Autograph Sketch-Plan Showing Two Sections of the Proposed Cylindrical Tunnel [1818] Isambard Kingdom Brunel The Brunel Museum

[whencyclopedia]

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) was a British engineer and a key figure of the British Industrial Revolution (1760-1840). Brunel masterminded the Great Western Railway from London to Bristol, designed and built innovative giant steamships like SS Great Britain, constructed bridges and tunnels, and aided casualties in the Crimean War by designing the innovative Renkioi Hospital.

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