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Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Bridges to the Future

Engineering Ingenuity and the Legacy of Individualism in the Age of Innovation

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I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today. —Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Victorian Britain was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. The invention of t…

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