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#201 Isambard Kingdom Brunel (James Dyson's Hero)

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A century is a brief span. As a historian measures time. Yet between seventeen sixty and eighteen sixty. A small group of men transformed the face of England into And brought about an economic and social upheaval so vast.

That the life of no single person in this country remain unaffected by it. They set in motion a process of rapid Technical evolution that still continues. Of this small group of men.

whose lives had such prodigious consequences. In Zumbard Kingdom Brunel was perhaps the outstanding personality. He has his statue in marble. Every boy's railway book refers to him. You may have seen his name engraved upon that great bridge.

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