The document discusses the career of British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It describes some of Brunel's major projects, including helping design a tunnel under the Thames River in London and working on the Clifton Suspension Bridge spanning Avon Gorge in Bristol. Brunel overcame difficulties during construction of these projects and pioneered new tunneling and engineering techniques. The document provides background information on Brunel and lists some of his notable accomplishments developing transportation infrastructure as a pioneering engineer in Britain.

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worked for several years as an
assistant engineer on the project to
create a tunnel under London's
River Thames, with tunnellers
driving a horizontal shaft from one
side of the river to the other under
the most difficult and dangerous
conditions. Brunel's father, Marc,
was the chief engineer, and the
project was funded by the Thames
Tunnel Company. The composition
of the riverbed at Rotherhithe was
often little more than waterlogged
sediment and loose gravel. An
ingenious tunnelling shield
designed by Marc Brunel helped
protect workers from cave-ins, but British Columbia Provincial
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most senior miners, and Brunel
himself narrowly escaped death. He
was seriously injured, and spent six
months recuperatingThe event
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3. Isambard K. Brunel wrote to his
brother-in-law, the politician
Benjamin Hawes: "Of all the Clifton Suspension Bridge spans Avon Gorge, linking Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset.
wonderful feats I have performed,
since I have been in this part of the
world, I think yesterday I performed
the most wonderful. I produced
unanimity among 15 men who were
all quarrelling about that most ticklish
subject— taste". Work on the Clifton
bridge started in 1831, but was
suspended due to the
Queen Square riots caused by the
arrival of Sir Charles Wetherell in
Clifton. The riots drove away
investors, leaving no money for the
project, and construction
ceased.Brunel did not live to see the
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Brunel's deathIn 2011 it was
suggested, by historian and
biographer Adrian Vaughan, that
Brunel did not design the bridge, as
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