Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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#2The reading of Brunel's "atmospheric caper" sounds somewhat a forerunner to one of Elon Musk's transport ideas.
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#3The reading of Brunel's "atmospheric caper" sounds somewhat a forerunner to one of Elon Musk's transport ideas.
That was my first thought too - and if you dig deeper you'll see there were quite a few folks working on this concept in the mid-1800s. Suprising! Steampunk indeed.
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#4The reading of Brunel's "atmospheric caper" sounds somewhat a forerunner to one of Elon Musk's transport ideas.
That was my first thought too - and if you dig deeper you'll see there were quite a few folks working on this concept in the mid-1800s. Suprising! Steampunk indeed.
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#5The reading of Brunel's "atmospheric caper" sounds somewhat a forerunner to one of Elon Musk's transport ideas.
I didn't know about the "atmospheric caper" but, yup, it's Elon Musk in a top hat.
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#6Speaking of this guy, my nephew is named after him :).
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http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA8BF37B0B3A38744
Slightly more relevant BBC documentary (part of their Greatest Britons series).
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#9There is a bizarre animated biography on IKB made by the BBC in 1975:
http://transportationist.org/2012/09/17/great_isambard_kingd...
"It is mostly about Brunel, but it is also telling of the state of the UK in the early 1970s. Something was clearly wrong that this was green-lighted."
What is even stranger is that it won an oscar in 1976.
Its definitely worth watching if you can find it.