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Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
… 8 Id. Mar. Lateran. (f. 326.) Collation to William called Brunel, of the parish church of Donton, in the diocese of …
Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
… Winchester. 4 Id. April. Avignon. (f. 339.) To Nicholas Brunel. Provision of a canonry of St. Mary's of the …
Old and New London
… that feat; and another great engineering genius, Isambard Brunel, happening, about the year 1814, to observe in the … he matured the idea. In 1824 a company was formed, and Brunel set to work, and with his celebrated "shield," an … years. Public subscriptions raised 5,000, and once more Brunel set to work. On the 25th of March, 1843, the tunned …
Survey of London
… Noble and his wife (a grand-daughter of I. K. Brunel) occupied Kent House until 1940. Princess …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… were replaced by a four-storeyed block of flats called Brunel House, designed by Frederick MacManus of Armstrong and … lapsed owing to high land costs and re-housing problems. 4 Brunel Flats, Cheyne Walk, built 1955 as part of the Cremorne …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… resolved in the early-nineteenth century by Marc Isambard Brunel who patented and introduced a method of making …
A History of the County of Stafford
… death was the 4-cylinder engine which powered the screw of Brunel's Great Eastern, launched in 1858. 98 In 1860 a former … 34; Birm. and Mid. Hardware Dist. 644-5; D.N.B. sub Brunel. Gale, Soho Foundry, 35; Birm. and Mid. Hardware Dist. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Pt. 3, p. 487) in 1855, and on 26 November 1856 I. K. Brunel reported that the joint station at Weymouth was very …
Survey of London
… 372 It was a development of the design introduced by Marc Brunel for the Thames Tunnel of 182543, and improved upon by …
Survey of London
… Great Eastern, conceived and designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (180659) for the Eastern Steam Navigation Company and … company, and ultimately Scott Russell, and brought about Brunel's early death (worn out, he suffered a stroke while on … previously floated. The building of ever-larger ships Brunel's own Great Western, constructed in 1838, measured …