The owner said no-one told them about the plan and that the work of art came as a shock.

Brunel was a visionary who transformed the way we live, but behind his carefully cultivated public image lay anxiety and self-doubt Allowing nothing to stand in his way, Isambard Kingdom Brunel built ...

__1806: __Isambard Kingdom Brunel is born in Portsmouth, England. His engineering works will change the face of Britain and British commerce with railroads, bridges, tunnels, docks and ships. Brunel ...

South-West England marks the 200th anniversary of one of the giants of the Victorian era: Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Many of his achievements can still be seen, plus ...

One of the best-known engineers of the 19th Century - if not the best-known engineer of all time - Isambard Kingdom Brunel achieved greatness in railway, civil and maritime engineering. By Nick Smith ...

Brunel's ability to solve complex engineering problems was legendary, and Box Hill in Western England proved a major obstacle to his most famous engineering project, the Great Western Railway. The ...

SIR – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, as mythologised by his many recent admirers (report, September 15), may be a gift to the theme park and entertainment industries, but his true legacy to later British ...

The genius behind the ss Great Britain and the Clifton Suspension Bridge was rated "very good" at maths, German and drawing in his 1821 school report. But 15-year-old Brunel's Latin was not up to ...

If this were a film, the scene would flash back to 1837 to one of Britain’s busiest ports, when Bristol was a major shipbuilding centre. On the site of the M Shed is the yard of ­William Patterson, ...

Did you know Brunel is credited with possibly one of the first recorded examples of plant conservation? Read on to find out about the plant he chose to have moved out of the way of his new Clifton ...