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With its four elliptical skew arches and Bath stone quoins, Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s bridge at Moulsford is one of many lasting monuments to what can be achieved through energy, vision and expertise.
Born in 1806, Brunel was one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history and one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution. As chief engineer of the Great Western Railway he changed the face of the English landscape with his ground-breaking designs and ingenious constructions along the route from London to Bristol. Brunel's vision was that passengers would be able to purchase one ticket at London Paddington and travel from London to New York, changing from the Railway to the Great Western steamship in West Wales. During his career, Brunel achieved many engineering firsts, including assisting in the building of the first tunnel under a navigable river. He designed and built three ships revolutionising naval engineering including the SS Great Britain, the first propeller-driven, ocean-going, iron ship, which, when built in 1843, was the largest ship ever built and the SS Great Eastern. Brunel suffered a stroke in September 1859, just before the Great Eastern made her first voyage to New York. He died ten days later at the age of 53.
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