TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beamish,Richard
TI  - Memoir of the Life of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
T2  - Cambridge library collection. Technology
SN  - 9781107300286 (ebook)
AV  - TA140.B78 B43 1862
U1  - 620.0092 23
PY  - 1862///
CY  - Place of publication not identified
PB  - publisher not identified
KW  - Engineers
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
N1  - Includes index
N2  - Abandoning a military career, Richard Beamish (1798-1873) decided to become a civil engineer. His suitability as a biographer of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849) stems from the period he spent working closely with the Brunels on the Thames Tunnel. Published in 1862, this memoir recounts the elder Brunel's eventful life and work, including his youth in France, his flight to America in the aftermath of the French Revolution, his lesser-known ventures in the early nineteenth century, and the tunnelling project which would consume much of the second half of his life. An informed portrait of a figure who has since been outshone by his more famous son, this book includes first-hand accounts of the ill-fated early attempt to build the Thames Tunnel, which was abandoned in 1828 due to flooding and lack of funds, and of Brunel's vindication upon its eventual completion in 1843
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107300286
ER  -