Isambard's Accomplishments

Isambard Kingdom Brunel is a well know English engineer from the later 1800’s and is more known for what he has done than who he is. Isambard’s father is Sir Marc Isambard Brunel and is a French civil engineer who at the time Isambard was born, he did work in block-making machinery. The ironic thing about Isambard is that he is an English engineer instead of a French engineer like his father. This creates multiple differences between father and son; one being that Marc is a civil engineer that focused more of the artistic part of engineering and most likely drew his own plans by hand. While Isambard is an English mechanical and civil engineer who was working in his profession closer to the 19th century, where part of his education dealt with …show more content…
These accomplishments lead to the fame of Isambard Brunel even though most of the projects he had were finished after his death. Brunel became known as that man who helped to advance transportation. But even though Isambard and his father had different ways of engineering success, Isambard couldn’t have become famous without his father’s help. This is true because his father taught Isambard in the earlier years of his life because of the money troubles that his family had. Isambard was taught geometry, French, and the basic principles of engineering. Some of Isambard’s teachings even led to being taught how “to draw interesting building and identify any faults in their structures” (Wikipedia). When it came to education there was not much contrast in how Isambard’s education differed from his fathers. Their education was only different because Isambard was taught the basic principles of the engineering by his father at a young age. But to compare both of their educations it is easy because both Isambard and his father went to the College of Caen in Normandy, and then Lycee Henri-Quatre in Paris. Isambard’s father wanted the same high-quality education that he once enjoyed when he was