Brunel Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/brunel/ Mechanically-minded travel Wed, 10 Jan 2024 21:54:58 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Review: SS Great Britain, Bristol https://mechtraveller.com/2016/05/review-ss-great-britain-bristol/ https://mechtraveller.com/2016/05/review-ss-great-britain-bristol/#respond Tue, 10 May 2016 12:09:58 +0000 http://mechtraveller.com/?p=1456 I’ve long meant to pay Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s maritime masterpiece a visit, and I wasn’t disappointed. The Potted History Brunel must have been a commandingly persuasive man because somehow he got the Great Western Steamship Company to approve two serious departures from normal shipbuilding techniques for their new transatlantic passenger ship: He changed the planned […]

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