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Author: Helen Doe
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2018-09-15
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1445683652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book to provide an overview of all of Brunel’s vessels, richly illustrated, and endorsed by the SS Great Britain Trust.
Author: Denis Griffiths
Publisher: Chatham Publishing
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIsambard Kingdom Brunel created a number of quite revolutionary steamships - the Great Western which was the first practical transatlantic paddle-steamer; the Great Britain, the first iron-built screw-driven liner; and the monster Great Eastern which remained the largest ship in the world for almost half a century. Besides these well-known wonders of the maritime world, Brunel also worked with the Admiralty on the introduction of the screw propeller into naval service.
Author: Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1615307273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEven as airlines provide faster means of travel, ships and boats remain as important as ever in transporting passengers and cargo across the worlds bodies of water. While ship design has become increasingly sophisticated with time, everything including the luxury liners, warships, and sailboats of today owe much to the watercraft that facilitated travel, trade, and war among ancient cultures. This detailed volume examines the development of the different types of water vehicles and the design of related structures, including docks and quays.
Author: Chris Oxlade
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9781569240533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscoveries in science, developments in technology, and the impact on people and society.
Author: Steven Brindle
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2013-05-23
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1780226489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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: Howard Rodman
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2019-06-04
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 161219785X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"My favorite read of the year..."—Keegan-Michael Key, Top Ten Picks, New York Times A dazzling, inventive literary adventure story in which Captain Ahab confronts Captain Nemo and the dark cultural stories represented by both characters are revealed in cliffhanger fashion. A sprawling adventure pitting two of literature's most iconic anti-heroes against each other: Captain Nemo and Captain Ahab. Caught between them: real-life British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, builder of the century's greatest ship, The Great Eastern. But when he's kidnapped by Nemo to help design a submarine with which to fight the laying of the Translatlantic cable - linking the two colonialist forces Nemo hates, England and the US - Brunel finds himself going up against his own ship, and the strange man hired to protect it, Captain Ahab, in a battle for the soul of the 19th century.
Author: Helen Doe
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2019-07-15
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1445684527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of Brunel's most famous ship and the people who knew her, using new archive sources
Author: Nicola Skinner
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2023-06-06
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0063071754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNicola Skinner's inventive, funny, surprising prose once again tells an honest story of big emotions, making Starboard the perfect follow-up to the critically acclaimed Storm. Kirsten Bramble is too famous to have friends. That’s what she tells herself, anyway—but with the end of her hit reality TV show barreling toward her, Kirsten’s not sure she’s ready to say goodbye to her lonely life of fame. Luckily—or unluckily—Kirsten can’t help being plunged headfirst into a new adventure when she’s dragged on a class trip to visit the SS Great Britain. Because somehow, the ancient ship can speak to her—and she wants Kirsten to be her new captain. The ship pulls out of the harbor with no sails and no working engine, and try as Kirsten might, she can’t convince the ship to turn back until they find a way to help her finish her final quest. Kirsten doesn’t feel like a captain—but along the way, she may just realize that the ending of an adventure, while scary, can be just as special as the beginning.
Author: Anthony Burton
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
Published: 2022-04-13
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1526787008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIsambard Kingdom Brunel has always been regarded as one of Britain’s great heroes and an engineering genius. His father Marc Brunel has not received the same degree of adulation, but this book will show just how important a part Marc played in his son’s works and will also look at his own great achievements. Marc Brunel arrived in Britain as a refugee from revolutionary France, after a short time working in America. He was a pioneer of mass production technology, when he invented machines for making blocks for sailing ships. He had other inventions to his name, but his greatest achievement was in constructing the very first tunnel under the Thames. Isambard spent his early years working for and with is father, who not only encouraged him but throughout his career he was also able to offer practical help. The famous viaduct that carried the Great Western Railway over the Thames at Maidenhead, for example was based on an earlier design of Marc’s. Isambard’s greatest achievements were in revolutionizing the shipping industry, where hew as able to draw on his father’s experience when he served in the navy. The book not only looks at the successes of two great engineers, but also their failures. Primarily, however, it is a celebration of two extraordinary mean and their amazing achievements.
Author: Helen Doe
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2017-07-15
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1445667215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first ever history of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s forgotten first ship, the SS Great Western, the fastest and largest Atlantic Steamship of its day.
