Isambard was the son of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849) and Sophia Kingdom (d ... He is best known as the designer of the Clifton suspension bridge near Bristol and engineer of the Great Western ...

Richard Beamish, an engineer, tells of the time when he was employed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his father, Marc, to work on the Thames Tunnel. It was 1825 and no one had ever dug a tunnel ...