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Civil engineering is the loudest of the engineering's - what civil engineers make is visible and can be seen, touched and lived-in by many for many ye
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Civil engineer. Born Portsea, Hampshire. Constructions include: Great Western Railway and the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Died at home, 18 Duke Street (see below). A very popular Brit, as illustrated in the terrific animated short film from 1975 by Bob Godfrey: 'Great (Isambard Kingdom Brunel)'. Good post at London Historians. September 2021: a 1982 Bristol statue by John Doubleday was moved to (Brunel's) Temple Meads station, bookending with the statue at Paddington. March 2022: Vic Keegan’s Lost London 222: Brunel In Duke Street reported on the house where Brunel lived and worked for many years and where he died: 18 (plus, from 1848, 17) Duke Street. This has now been built over by The Treasury but these two houses were at the south-east corner of what is now the junction of King Charles Street and Horse Guards Road. We cannot get to the bottom of his name 'Isambard'. He shared it with his father, also an engineer, and it does not appear to be a nickname in either case, but it is an early Germanic name meaning (depending on source) 'glittering iron', 'iron giant' or 'man of iron' - an outstanding case of nominative determinism. Other good examples being the poet Wordsworth and the architect Rem Koolhaus. At Normansfield Asylum we tell of a neurologist similarly blessed. And we read that Unity Mitford's gynaecologist was pleasingly named Dr Becket Overy. While in the health field, what about Sir Henry Wellcome? And De Gaulle - he lived up to his name in a big way. And did the Booker Connell firm choose to sponsor a literature prize because of their name? But then there's the woodcarver Michael Painter, who escaped his fate, unlike the stone mason Nicholas Stone, or the architect William Chambers. The most London example we have found is Thomas Faryner. Sorry to go on, but this concept can even pass through geographic features to a whole species. The early hominids, the Neanderthals, are named after the valley in which the first identified specimen was found. In the early 19th century the valley was named in honour of Joachim Neander, a German Christian theologian and hymn writer, who would hold gatherings and services there. Neander's grandfather had changed the family name to Neander from the original Neumann - 'new man'. The Neanderthals join the ND club.
Sir Sandford Fleming, civil engineer (b at Kirkcaldy, Scot 7 Jan 1827; d at Halifax 22 July 1915).
Ten of the greatest surviving structures by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
At least once in our lives, we’ve all found a face staring back at us from a socket, a pensive grimace on a building, or even “screaming” products.
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Today: Miss Universe costumes, a turtle on an alligator, a a Gumby hold-up.
Below the Deception Pass bridge in Washington. 6 images HDR
Kariba, town, northern Zimbabwe. Situated on the south bank of the Zambezi River and built on the twin hills of Botererkwa overlooking Kariba Gorge and Lake Kariba (one of the world’s largest man-made lakes), the town was established in 1957 by the Federal Power Board to accommodate Kariba Dam’s construction staff as well as settlers. The name means “where the waters have been trapped.” During the five-year construction of the dam, the Batonka people living in the areas to be flooded were relocated, as were animals marooned by the formation of the lake. Kariba has become one of Zimbabwe’s major
The Valais is a canton on the southern part of Switzerland. It is home to the world-famous pyramid-shaped Matterhorn and its car-free village Zermatt, beautiful crystal clear mountain lakes, upper …
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Examining the social and economic lives of the Victorian working classes and the poor. By Liza Picard / 10.14.2009 English
Today In History ‘Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, author, and engineer of the Underground Railroad, led Union Army guerillas into South Carolina and freed nearly 800 slaves on this date June 2 1863....
Dormers are structural elements added to the roof of a house that provide more light, ventilation and extra space to the tallest story of the structure.
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The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram. —Thomas Koenig Queueing theory offers insight into why traditional d...
The Trollstigen, Norway's most famous mountain road, on its way down to the Isterdal. Quite an impressive accomplishment of civil engineering.
High Park is one of Toronto's most valuable gifts - literally. It was bequeathed by John George Howard, the city's official surveyor and civil engi...
A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.
