Memoir of the Life of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel - Civil Engineer, Vice-President of the Royal Society, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, &C. &C. &C #244983

N undertaking to place on record the leading events in the life of one of the greatest mechanists of the age, I am fully sensible of the difficulties to be over come, and of the delicacy with which many passages in such a life must be approached; and it is only because no one else has sought to secure some of those fleeting notices of a personal nature, which time only too soon obliterates, that I have drawn up this Memoir of one to whom England stands largely in debted for her progress in the mechanical arts.