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Re: Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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Post by arethuza »

kitd wrote: post #15

Brunel is one of my heroes. I was born in Bristol and he was a large part of the city's heritage and featured in the school curriculum. I have an early memory of standing on the edge of the Avon watching the SS Great Britain come under the suspension bridge into the Cumberland Basin in around 1970. Funnily enough, I visited the ship again just the other weekend for the first time in about 30 years. It is only apparen…

Thanks - "Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway" makes a superb screen background!

Re: Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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Post by duncanawoods »

kitd wrote: post #15

Brunel is one of my heroes. I was born in Bristol and he was a large part of the city's heritage and featured in the school curriculum. I have an early memory of standing on the edge of the Avon watching the SS Great Britain come under the suspension bridge into the Cumberland Basin in around 1970. Funnily enough, I visited the ship again just the other weekend for the first time in about 30 years. It is only apparen…

I love the Clifton Suspension bridge - its a thing of beauty. I like this combo of engineering feats - Concorde's last flight included a flyby over the bridge:

http://www.justmomentsintime.com.au/BaileySite/Terrys%20Page...

For added interest - the white building is one of only two working camera obscuras in the country and the bridge is over Avon Gorge. If you hear of "Silicon Gorge", now you know what it looks like!

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Post by Joeboy »

pkolaczk wrote: post #16

Sting wrote a song related to him (actually one of the ships he'd built): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH44goCQqCU

Totally reddit style comment, destined for downvote oblivion, but I like this Brunel related Steampunk song so much I can't resist linking to it just this once: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21QqXumEWFU

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Post by kitd »

duncanawoods wrote: post #23
kitd wrote: post #15

Brunel is one of my heroes. I was born in Bristol and he was a large part of the city's heritage and featured in the school curriculum. I have an early memory of standing on the edge of the Avon watching the SS Great Britain come under the suspension bridge into the Cumberland Basin in around 1970. Funnily enough, I visited the ship again just the other weekend for the first time in about 30 years. It is only apparen…

I love the Clifton Suspension bridge - its a thing of beauty. I like this combo of engineering feats - Concorde's last flight included a flyby over the bridge: http://www.justmomentsintime.com.au/BaileySite/Terrys%20Page... For added interest - the white building is one of only two working camera obscuras in the country and the bridge is over Avon Gorge. If you hear of "Silicon Gorge", now you know what it looks like…

Lovely shot. Concorde is a thing of beauty too, all done with pen/paper/slide-rules of course.

At about the time the SS Great Britain was being repatriated, Concorde was undergoing its initial test flights. We saw an early one take off from Filton from across the Bristol Channel in Wales. In those days, it was allowed to do sonic booms as it flew along the Welsh coast. Bloody hell it was loud!

Re: Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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Post by goatforce5 »

buro9 wrote: post #11
brendannee wrote: post #9

There 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.

I just tried finding that on YouTube as the IMDB comments suggested it might be there. I didn't find that film, but I found this film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXgGsEO1b04 Which, for a condensed, half-witty animation, does a fair job of putting such a life into 3 minutes. The best I found on the Oscar winning film are some clips: http://0xdb.org/0073068/clips/position . From the clips, I would describe it as a…

http://video.yandex.ru/users/urikis/view/644 seems to be it, complete with Russian subtitles.
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