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Bezig met laden... Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Engineering Knight-Errantdoor Adrian Vaughan
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From that realization that Rolt may have been guilty of “uncritical hero-worship” of I. K. Brunel, Adrian Vaughan was determined to write the true story and history of I. K. Brunel. The author spent many years and hundreds of hours of research looking into all aspects of I. K. Brunel’s business and personal history. For any student of 19th century engineering and technology I think this is a must read book.
This is the first biography to show Brunel as he actually was. Drawing on evidence ignored or suppressed in Rolt's classic Life, Adrian Vaughan reveals not just an engineer of genius, a born actor and a courageous leader, but also a man who was obstinate, unjust, dictatorial and in the end paranoid. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)620.0092Technology Engineering and allied operations Engineering General Engineering Biography And History BiographyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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It is more than the fairly usual wife neglect of the “Alpha” male that we find in many over-achievers in history, Brunel was also overly ambitious, often wrong, and usually over-spent on both estimates and budgets.
However his sheer genius shines through these wisps and fogs and the truth, in this case, fails to damage Brunel’s greatness. His works … the GWR Railroad, SS Great Britain, the Avon Gorge bridges and even his ‘domestic’ building designs … attest to a striving, driving brilliance. Adrian Vaughan actually worked on remaining segments of Brunel’s greatest monument, the GWR (see his very enjoyable autobiographical account in http://www.librarything.com/work/book/85310863 Signalman’s Morning) and describes the purity of engineering Brunel designed into such a great railway.
Eminently readable prose, a very good ‘life’ … warts and all.
Disclaimer - no relation, or none that I know of although the Author’s Photo I found for his page on LibraryThing rather belies that !