Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 103. Chapters: Gustave Eiffel, Othmar Ammann, Thomas Telford, Benjamin Baker, John Smeaton, John Rennie the Elder, John A. Roebling, Leffert L. Buck, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Santiago Calatrava, Thomas Harrison, Vladimir Shukhov, Robert Stephenson, David B. Steinman, Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, Robert Maillart, Albert Caquot, Charles Blacker Vignoles, John Bradfield, James Trubshaw, James Buchanan Eads, Samuel Bentham, George Turnbull, Washington Roebling, John Alexander Low Waddell, Conde McCullough, Samuel Brown, George Gandy, William Fairhurst, Fabrizio de Miranda, Gustav Lindenthal, Clement Wilks, William Arrol, Eugène Freyssinet, David Lennox, Jean M. Muller, Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, Oleksandr Garmash, Ralph Modjeski, Peter Bruff, Theodore Cooper, Émile Nouguier, Joseph Strauss, Albert Fink, Guillaume Henri Dufour, Marc Seguin, Fritz Leonhardt, Joseph Treffry, William Brown, Tung-Yen Lin, William Jackson, Michel Virlogeux, Apollodorus of Damascus, Charles Ellet, Jr., Jörg Schlaich, Leon Moisseiff, Eduardo Torroja, Squire Whipple, Ralph Freeman, Christian Menn, Abraham Burton Cohen, Anghel Saligny, Evgeny Paton, William Tierney Clark, Sarah Guppy, Lemuel Chenoweth, William Cubitt, Franz Dischinger, John C Climie, Louis Harper, Javier Manterola, C.A.P. Turner, Nikolai Belelyubsky, Riccardo Morandi, James Finley, William Weston, Johannes Holt, William Hazledine, William S. Hewett, Alberto Palacio, Ferdinand Arnodin, Sir Francis Fox, Thomas Penson, Peter W. Barlow, Alfred P. Boller, Joseph Chaley, George Buchanan, Kaichi Watanabe, Toni Rüttimann, John Gwynn, James Madison Porter III, Jean-Baptiste de Voglie, Emiland Gauthey, James Barney Marsh, Henry Marc Brunel, Charles Conrad Schneider, Jacob R. Brandt, Hubert Gautier, Al Zampa, Manuel Hornibrook, Oleg Kerensky, James Jardine, Zenas King, Charles Labelye, Frank H. Shaw, John Waddell, Lavr Proskuryakov, Thomas William Moseley, Olaf Stang, Theodor Stang, Clark Eldridge, Rowland Mason Ordish, Louis-Alexandre de Cessart, Louis-Jean Résal, Edward L. Ashton, Paul-Martin Gallocher de Lagalisserie, Johannes Grubenmann, Sadler Rogers, Joseph Cubitt. Excerpt: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 ¿ 15 September 1859), was a leading British civil engineer, famed for his bridges and dockyards, and especially for the construction of the first major British railway, the Great Western Railway; a series of famous 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 Great Britain, the first propeller-driven ocean-going iron ship, which was at the time (1843) also the largest ship ever built. Brunel set the standard for a very well-built railway, using careful surveys to minimise grades and curves. That necessitated expensive construction techniques and new bridges and viaducts, and the famous two-mile-long Box Tunnel. One controversial feature was the wide gauge, a "broad gauge" of in (2,140 mm), instead of what was later to be known as 'standard gauge' of in (1,435 mm). The wider gauge added to passenger comfort but made construction much ...
