Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was one of the most important British engineers of the nineteenth century. He planned and built much of the Great Western Railway and left landmark works such as the Clifton Suspension Bridge, the Thames Tunnel, and ocean steamships including the Great Eastern.

His career spanned railways, bridges, tunnels, and ships, embodying the combined civil and mechanical engineering of the Industrial Revolution. He is widely regarded as a defining figure of Victorian engineering achievement.