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or the Australian Open

included in the manuscript copy account 'A letter to the Revd

from the south-east

wearing a coronet representing royal descent

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer Product:Postcard or the Australian OpenIsambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer, 1857 (1956). Brunel (1806 1859) standing in front of the launching chains of his steamship the 'Great Eastern'. Brunel left school in 1822 to work for his father Marc Isambard Brunel on the construction of the Thames Tunnel. He later became the chief engineer of the Great Western Railway between 1833 and 1858, and designed many bridges and viaducts including the Royal Albert Bridge in Saltash, Cornwall, and

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