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A carregar... Brunel: The Man Who Built the World (Phoenix Press) (2005)por Steven Brindle
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This really is a good book and anyone interested in British history, let alone in engineering, bridges, tunnels, railways and ships, should read it. ( ) I felt as though the writer was holding back on giving the reader a real insight into how Brunel went about handling his feats of engineering. I suppose when you buy an biography of a man this what you get. In an ideal world the book needed to be longer, for me it lacked depth. Still it was intriguing to find out about his father who was also an engineer. You could even say the father was an even more of a genius than Isambard. I must read up more on this man who I consider one of the all time greats of Britain. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
A 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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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