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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 64. Chapters: Charles Yerkes, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, Joseph Locke, List of railway pioneers, Charles Pearson, Ross Winans, Matthew Murray, Victor Gustav Bloede, Peter Cooper, Frank J. Sprague, William James, Peter Crerar, George Hudson, John Brogden, Oliver Evans, John Stephenson, Andrew Smith Hallidie, Charles Vincent Walker, Richard Hartmann, Benjamin Outram, James Brunlees, Daniel Gooch, Alexander Brogden, Peter Bruff, John Stevens, Marc Seguin, Joseph Treffry, Thomas Davenport, Samuel Brooks, Wendel Bollman, James Brogden, Phineas Davis, Johann Andreas Schubert, Louis Victor Robert Schwartzkopff, David Macpherson, William Moorsom, Robert Davidson, John Curr, Thomas Edmondson, Gustav Wittfeld, Matthias von Schonerer, Andrew Vivian, Johann Rihosek, Karl Gustav Brescius, Henry Brogden, Magnus Volk, Rudolf Sanzin, John Baillie, Johann Friedrich Ludwig Wohlert, Johann Brotan, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II, Franz Xaver Riepl, Bion J. Arnold, Friedrich Wilhelm Eckhardt, John Brogden Jun., John Waddell, Louis Adolf Golsdorf, Anton Elbel, Jakob Buchli, Edward Entwistle, Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg. Excerpt: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 - 15 September 1859), was a British civil engineer who built bridges and dockyards including the construction of the first major British railway, the Great Western Railway; 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 short career, Brunel achieved many engineering "firsts," including assisting in the building of the first tunnel under a navigable river and development of SS Gr...
