The History of Brunel`s Times
1790-94 Watkin George constructed first iron girder bridge in Modern World
1800 Maudslay's precision screw-cutting lathe
1802 Dalton states his Atomic Theory
1804 Beethoven's Eroica'
1804 Richard Trevithick invents steam engine to run on rails
1805 Battle of Trafalgar
1806 Birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel in Portsea.
1807 Fulton's steamboat on Hudson River
1811 Luddite riots
1812 Napoleon retreats from Moscow
1814 Stephenson builds the Blucher
1815 Battle of Waterloo
1817 Constable paints Flatford Mill'
Goes to France 1820,1822 Returns to London after studying in Paris and joins the drawing office of his father, the eminent engineer, Marc Brunel.
1820 Ampere's Laws of Electro-dynamic Action
1821 Faraday invents the electric motor
Enter's father's office aged 16 1822,1827 Appointed resident engineer of the Thames Tunnel only to be seriously injured by flood damage in January 1828.
1825 Stockton and Darlington Railway opened
Engineer in charge of Thames Tunnel 1826
1827 Ohm's Law stated
1830 - Wins second Clifton Bridge competition.
1829 Stephenson's Rocket wins Rainhill Trials
1825 William Crawshay builds Cyfarthfa Castle at cost of £30,000
Construction begins 1831
1832 First Reform Bill
Bristol Dock works and GWR route survey 1833
1834 Tolpuddle Martyrs
1836 - Marriage to Mary Horsley
1837 Queen Victoria succeeds to throne
1837 - "Great Western" launched
1839 'People's Charter'
1841 - Taff Vale Railway completed
1841 Birth of Sir Henry Morton STANLEY (of Africa)
Lines from London to Bristol opened 1841
Thames Tunnel opened and Great Britain' launched 1843
1843 List of Ships arriving in Australia
Saltash Bridge commenced 1848
1848 'Year of Revolutions'
1849 'David Copperfield
1851 The Great Exhibition
Chepstow Bridge opened 1852
Prefabricated hospital for Crimea 1855
1854-5 Crimean War
1856 Bessemer's steel-making process
1858 - "Great Eastern" launched
1859 ' Origin of Species' and ' A Tale of Two Cities'
Saltash Bridge opened 1859
Brunel Dies 1859
