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Brunel, in love with the impossible : a celebration of the life, work, and legacy of Isambard Kingdom Brunel / edited by Andrew Kelly and Melanie Kelly.

Title
Brunel, in love with the impossible : a celebration of the life, work, and legacy of Isambard Kingdom Brunel / edited by Andrew Kelly and Melanie Kelly.
Publication
Bristol : Bristol Cultural Development Partnership, 2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, 1806-1859
  • Kelly, Andrew, 1960-
  • Kelly, Melanie
  • Bristol Cultural Development Partnership
Description
367 p. : chiefly col. ill.; 29 cm.
Summary
Collection of essays on the life, work, and legacy of Isambard Kingdom Brunel published as part of the Brunel 200 celebrations in 2006, marking the 200th anniversary of his birth.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • History
Note
  • Collection of essays on the life, work, and legacy of Isambard Kingdom Brunel published as part of the Brunel 200 celebrations in 2006, marking the 200th anniversary of his birth.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 330-343) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Isambard Kingdom Brunel / Augus Buchanan -- Marc Isambard Brunel / Audrew Nabum -- The nineteenth-century engineer as cultural hero / Christine MacLeod -- 'Suspensa vix via fit' -- the saga of the building of the Clifton Supension Bridge / Michael Pascoe / Adrian Andrews -- Brunel in Bristol docks / Angus Buchanan -- The Great Western Railway / Steven Brindle -- ss Great Britain / Andrew Lambert -- The Brunel collection, Bristol University Library / Nick Lee -- Professional colleagues / Michael Bailey -- Who built Brunel? / Adrian Vaughan -- Technological and social change : the impact on society of the work of Brunel and his contemporaries / Denis Smith -- Lines, landscape and anti-modernism : understanding Victorian opposition to the railways / Marcus Waitbe -- The function of ornament : the consolation of design in the industrial age / Claire O'Mahony.
ISBN
  • 0955074207
  • 0955074215 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2006491647
OCLC
  • 72536047
  • SCSB-12435855
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library