Ik Brunel – Was He Our Greatest Engineer?

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He has been described as one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history, one of the 19th-century engineering giants. One of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, a man who changed Victorian England with his designs and ingenious constructions, which we can still see today. Brunel built dockyards, the Great Western Railway (GWR), a series of steamships including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship, and numerous important bridges and tunnels. His designs revolutionised public transport and modern engineering. Though Brunel’s projects were not always successful, they often contained innovative solutions to long-standing engineering problems. During his career, Brunel achieved many engineering firsts, including: I K Brunel was an amazing man, but all this nearly didn’t happen as he was injured when working with his father on the Rotherhithe Tunnel, it collapsed on him, putting him in hospital. There he vowed never to work underground again! So, what do you think he did from his hospital bed? He learnt of a competition to design a bridge across a gorge near Bristol, he entered, he won it, and built what we now call the Clifton Suspension Bridge.This is the weird bit, it wasn’t completed until after his death. There were terrible funding problems which delayed it, but in the end, it was built and is a tribute to his genius. If you want to meet I K Brunel we have a musical for children, The Victorian Historian – A Journey to Victorian Britain, where two children accidentally get transported in a time machine to Victorian Britain, in their journey to return to the present they met the great Victorian engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. You can download this 50-minute show at¬¨‚Ćhttps://www.history-portal.com/show/the-victorian-historian-2/ ¬¨‚Ćsupplied ready to perform by 15 to 100 children with script, (including stage directions) historical Fact Sheets, Art Pack showing how to make the scenery, costumes, and props along with 24 MP3 files, being both performance and rehearsal tracks. Your children can enjoy being part of history. For more information on this incredible man go to: ¬¨¬© Tony Dalton