Henry Marc Brunel
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) (father)
- Mary Horsley (mother)
Henry Marc Brunel (27 June 1842 – 7 October 1903) was an English civil engineer and the son of engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and grandson of civil engineer Marc Isambard Brunel.
Henry Marc Brunel was born in Westminster, London on 27 June 1842, the second son of the celebrated engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Elizabeth Mary Horsley. He decided to follow his father and grandfather's footsteps by becoming a civil engineer. Brunel attended King's College London from 1859–1861, and then gained experience in civil engineering through serving out various apprenticeships. He helped take down his father's Hungerford Bridge with Sir John Hawkshaw so the chains are now at Clifton Suspension Bridge. He conducted initial surveys for a Channel Tunnel.[1] He developed an interest in acting as a hobby, becoming a member of the Scientific and Amateur Dramatic Societies, and also contributed to his brother's biography of their father.[2]
Henry is noted for a partnership from 1878 with Sir John Wolfe Barry, with whom he designed the Blackfriars Railway Bridge and (after Sir Horace Jones died) Tower Bridge[3] over the River Thames in central London. Their other works included the docks at Barry in south Wales and the Creagan Bridge, a railway bridge over the narrows of Loch Creran in Scotland (jointly credited to Wolfe Barry, Brunel and E.M. Crutwell). Sir Alexander Gibb was a pupil of Brunel and Wolfe Barry in 1895.
He also designed the SS Chauncy Maples, which was built in Glasgow in 1899 and transported overland to Lake Nyasa in Africa, where it served for more than one hundred years as a mission and hospital clinic.
Brunel is buried with his father, grandfather, and other family members at Kensal Green Cemetery in London.
References
- ^ Donovan, D. T. (1967). Henry Marc Brunel: The first submarine geological survey and the invention of the gravity corer. Marine Geology, 5(1), 5-14.
- ^ Brunel, Isambard (1870). The Life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil Engineer. London, UK: Longmans, Green, and Co. ISBN 1293935212.
- ^ Portman Derek (2004) Henry Marc Brunel: Civil Engineer https://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/Downloads/chs/final-chs-vol.20/chs-vol.20-pp.71-to-83.pdf Cambridge, UK Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
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- Bristol and Exeter
- Bristol and Gloucester
- Bristol and South Wales Union
- Cheltenham and Great Western Union
- Cornwall
- Dartmouth and Torbay
- East Somerset
- Great Western and Brentford
- Llynvi Valley
- Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton
- South Devon
- South Devon and Tavistock
- South Wales
- South Wales Mineral
- Taff Vale
- Vale of Neath
- West Cornwall
- West Somerset
- Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth
- Angarrack viaduct
- Avon Bridge
- Bath:St James's Bridge; Skew Bridge; St James' Viaduct
- Bishop's Bridge
- Chepstow Bridge
- Chippenham viaduct
- Clifton Suspension Bridge
- Cornwall Railway viaducts
- Cumberland Basin swing bridges
- "Devil's Bridge", Uphill
- Gatehampton Railway Bridge
- Hungerford Bridge
- Landore Viaduct
- Loughor Viaduct
- Maidenhead Bridge
- Moulsford Railway Bridge
- Royal Albert Bridge
- Somerset Bridge
- Three Bridges, London
- Usk Bridge
- Wharncliffe Viaduct
- Windsor Bridge
- Great Western Steamship Company
- SS Great Western
- SS Great Britain
- SS Great Eastern
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern (1857 photograph)
- SS Archimedes borrowed by Brunel, used for propeller tests
- Brentford Dock
- Bristol Harbour
- Cumberland Basin
- Underfall Yard
- Millbay Docks
- Westport Canal
- Atmospheric railway
- Balloon flange girder
- Baulk road
- Broad gauge
- Brook House, Steventon
- Crew's Hole tar works
- Crystal Palace water towers
- Great Exhibition (Brunel on committee)
- Malmaison Hotel, Reading
- Renkioi Hospital
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Institution of Civil Engineers (VP from 1850)
- Abraham-Louis Breguet (trained Brunel)
- Robert Pearson Brereton (Chief assistant)
- Marc Isambard Brunel (father)
- Sophia Kingdom (mother)
- Lindsey House (childhood home)
- University of Caen Normandy
- Lycée Henri-IV
- Henry Marc Brunel (second son)
- Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream (picture commissioned by Brunel)
- Brunel Manor (commissioned by Brunel for his retirement)
- Sarah Guppy, whose portrait was painted by Brunel
- Kensal Green Cemetery
- Statues of Brunel
- Brunel Museum
- Being Brunel
- Broad gauge running line
- Blue plaque, 98 Cheyne Walk
- List of Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks (SS Great Britain #97)
- Brunel University London
- NR Brunel (Network Rail typeface)
- Brunel Award
- 100 Greatest Britons (Brunel #2)
- Two Brunel £2 coins in 2006
- 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony featured Brunel
- Brunel (opera project)
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