Brunel, Sir Isambard, engineer, born in Rouen, entered the French navy, emigrated to the United States; was chief engineer of New York; settled in England, became block-maker to the Royal Navy; constructed the Thames tunnel, begun in 1825 and finished in 1843 (1759‒1849).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Brune, G. Marie * Brunel, Isambard Kingdom