The Works Of Isambard Kingdom Brunel An Engineering Appreciation
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| Author | : Alfred Pugsley |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 1980-05-08 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0521232392 |
Originally published in 1976, this book by a group of engineers, each distinguished for work in their field, describes the achievements of I. K. Brunel, the giant among nineteenth-century engineers, whose works include the Clifton Suspension Bridge, and three famous ships, Great Western, Great Britain and Great Eastern.
| Author | : Ben Marsden |
| Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2016-09-12 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0822981874 |
Britain in the long nineteenth century developed an increasing interest in science of all kinds. Whilst poets and novelists took inspiration from technical and scientific innovations, those directly engaged in these new disciplines relied on literary techniques to communicate their discoveries to a wider audience. The essays in this collection uncover this symbiotic relationship between literature and science, at the same time bridging the disciplinary gulf between the history of science and literary studies. Specific case studies include the engineering language used by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the role of physiology in the development of the sensation novel and how mass communication made people lonely.
| Author | : Eugene Byrne |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 2014-02-03 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0750955252 |
In a BBC poll in 2002, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was voted the second-greatest Briton of all time, only eclipsed by Churchill. It's often claimed that that through his ships, bridges, tunnels and railways Brunel played a critical role in creating the modern world. In the soaring ambitions of the Victorian age, nobody thought bigger than Brunel. Never tied to a dusty office, he crammed enough work, adventure and danger into a single year to last a lesser person a lifetime. He was also a brilliant showman, a flamboyant personality and charmer who time and again succeeded in convincing investors to finance schemes which seemed impossible. Brunel made plenty of mistakes, some of them ruinously expensive. But he also designed and built several structures which are still with us to this day. For these we have to thank a man who was famously described as ‘in love with the impossible’.
| Author | : R. Angus Buchanan |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2006-06-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781852855253 |
| Author | : R. A. Otter |
| Publisher | : Thomas Telford |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 9780727719713 |
This guide covers from Cornwall to Kent, including Somerset and parts of Wiltshire and Surrey. It provides an informative look at some of the internationally renowned examples of historic development and engineering skills throughout southern England, including such examples as: Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse.
| Author | : David Loades |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 4319 |
| Release | : 2020-12-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000144364 |
The Reader's Guide to British History is the essential source to secondary material on British history. This resource contains over 1,000 A-Z entries on the history of Britain, from ancient and Roman Britain to the present day. Each entry lists 6-12 of the best-known books on the subject, then discusses those works in an essay of 800 to 1,000 words prepared by an expert in the field. The essays provide advice on the range and depth of coverage as well as the emphasis and point of view espoused in each publication.
| Author | : Steven Brindle |
| Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2013-05-23 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1780226489 |
A celebration of the life and engineering achievements of Isambard Kingdom Brunel by two of the world's foremost authorities. In his lifetime, Isambard Kingdom Brunel towered over his profession. Today, he remains the most famous engineer in history, the epitome of the volcanic creative forces which brought about the Industrial Revolution - and brought modern society into being. Brunel's extraordinary talents were drawn out by some remarkable opportunities - above all his appointment as engineer to the new Great Western Railway at the age of 26 - but it was his nature to take nothing for granted, and to look at every project, whether it was the longest railway yet planned, or the largest ship ever imagined, from first principles. A hard taskmaster to those who served him, he ultimately sacrificed his own life to his work in his tragically early death at the age of 53. His legacy, though, is all around us, in the railways and bridges that he personally designed, and in his wider influence. This fascinating new book draws on Brunel's own diaries, letters and sketchbooks to understand his life, times, and work.
| Author | : R.J.M. Sutherland |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 473 |
| Release | : 2016-12-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1351897403 |
This book deals with the period when iron became the dominant ’high-technology’ material, increasingly taking over from timber and masonry. It was necessary for the engines and machines of the new industries, but equally vital for the vast civil engineering works which supported this industrialisation. It was these works - mills, warehouses, dockyards, and above all bridges - which so impressed the public in the early 19th century. The papers selected here trace the evolving structural uses of cast and wrought iron in frames and roofs for buildings, and look in particular at the development of bridge design and construction, in America, France, and Russia, as well as in Britain. They cover the processes of design and testing, and at the same time throw much light on the attitudes and careers of the engineers themselves.
| Author | : Henry Petroski |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 1994-05-27 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780521466493 |
Case histories of engineering success and failure are presented to enrich understanding of the design process.
| Author | : Henry Petroski |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2011-01-05 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0307773205 |
This collection of informative and pleasurable essays by Henry Petroski elucidates the role of engineers in shaping our environment in countless ways, big and small. In Remaking the World Petroski gravitates this time, perhaps, toward the big: the English Channel tunnel, the Panama Canal, Hoover Dam, the QE2, and the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia, now the tallest buildings in the world. He profiles Charles Steinmetz, the genius of the General Electric Company; Henry Martyn Robert, a military engineer who created Robert's Rules of Order; and James Nasmyth, the Scotsman whose machine tools helped shape nineteenth-century ocean and rail transportation. Petroski sifts through the fossils of technology for cautionary tales and remarkable twists of fortune, and reminds us that failure is often a necessary step on the path to new discoveries. He explains soil mechanics by way of a game of "rock, scissors, paper," and clarifies fundamental principles of engineering through the spokes of a Ferris wheel. Most of all, Henry Petroski continues to celebrate the men and women whose scrawls on the backs of envelopes have immeasurably improved our world.
