Brunel: A Pocket Biography by L.T.C. Rolt
Brunel: A Pocket Biography

L.T.C. Rolt

Brunel: A Pocket Biography

L.T.C. Rolt with Paul Sharp (Illustrator)

128 pages first pub 1965 (editions)

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At nineteen, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was in charge, under his father, of an engineering work that excited the wonder of Europe: the Thames tunnel, completed in 1843. Twice it disastrously flooded while he was in it. At twenty-five, he designed the...

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