1. Isambard Kingdom Brunel 1806 - 1859

3. Travel from here to London? Travel from England to America?
How many different ways can you think of to:
Travel across a river?
Travel from here to London?
Travel from England to America?

4. Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born in Portsmouth in 1806
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born in Portsmouth in He went to school in Hove near Brighton in East Sussex.

5. When Brunel left school, he became an apprentice to a watchmaker in Paris. When he was 17, Brunel started work in his father's engineering office in London.

6. His first job was with his father in London, building the Thames Tunnel.

7. The Thames Tunnel
The tunnel went underneath the River Thames.

8. He built the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
After finishing the Thames Tunnel Brunel went to Bristol and won a competition to build a bridge over the River Avon.
He built the Clifton Suspension Bridge.

9. Next, Brunel wanted to build a railway from London to Bristol
Next, Brunel wanted to build a railway from London to Bristol. He became Chief Engineer of The Great Western Railway in 1833.

10. After building the railway Brunel began building ships to sail from Bristol to New York in America. He built the SS Great Britain which was made of Iron and powered by steam.

11. His last ship, The Great Eastern, was the biggest ship in the world at the time. It was launched in 1858, Brunel died a few months later in 1859.

12. BBC 100 Greatest Britons 2002. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Winston Churchill
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Princess Diana
Charles Darwin
William Shakespeare
Sir Issac Newton
Queen Elizabeth I
John Lennon
Admiral Horatio Nelson
Oliver Cromwell
Sir Ernest Shackleton
18. Queen Victoria
24. Queen Elizabeth II
33. David Beckham
40. King Henry VIII
41. Charles Dickens
52. Florence Nightingale
57. Alexander Graham Bell
67. Tony Blair
83. J.K Rowling

13. Which of these bridges is a suspension bridge?
Suspension Bridges

14. Clifton Suspension Bridge