| Authorised form of name | Brunel; Isambard Kingdom (1806 - 1859) |
| Dates | 1806 - 1859 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Portsmouth, Hampshire, England |
| Date of birth | 09 April 1806 |
| Place of death | Great Eastern steamship |
| Date of death | 15 September 1859 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
Kensal Green cemetery |
| Occupation | Civil engineer |
| Activity | Career:
Designed Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, Clifton Suspension Bridge, Great Western, Great Eastern and Great Britain steamships, Paddington Station, a hospital for Florence Nightingale, in the Crimea, Great Western Railway from Paddington to Bristol; died of a heart attack
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 10/06/1830 |
| Relationships | Son of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (FRS 1814) |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Guardian 2 (13/11/2000)
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1859-1860 vol 10 pp vii-xi
References:
Sir Alan Muir Wood, 'Self-Confident Engineer', review of Adrian Vaughan, Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Engineering Knight Errant in NR 1994 vol 48 pp 323-325
R A Buchanan, 'Science and Engineering: A Case Study in British Experience in the Mid-Nineteenth Century' in NR 1977-8 vol 32 pp 215-223
M V Wilkes, 'Charles Babbage and his world' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 353-365
K K Schwarz, 'Faraday and Babbage' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp367-381
F C Moon, 'Robert Willis and Franz Reuleaux: pioneers in the theory of machines' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 209-230 |
| Royal Society code | NA7961 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| MS/710/21 | Letter from Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 18 Duke Street, Westminster, to Robert Were Fox, Falmouth | 27 September 1855 |
| IM/005442 | Brunel, Marc Isambard | nd |
| EC/1830/34 | Brunel, Isambard Kingdom: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/000623 | Brunel, Isambard Kingdom | nd |