Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 118. Chapters: Gustave Eiffel, Othmar Ammann, Thomas Telford, Joseph Colaco, Leslie E. Robertson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Santiago Calatrava, Charles Wellford Leavitt, Liviu Librescu, Fazlur Khan, Eugene Figg, Vladimir Shukhov, Henry A. Schade, David B. Steinman, Werner Sobek, Robert Maillart, Albert Caquot, Cecil Balmond, Lawrence Hargrave, William Fairbairn, Stephen Timoshenko, Peter Rice, Ove Arup, James Buchanan Eads, Samuel Bentham, George Turnbull, William F. Baker, Félix Candela, Olatunji Ariyo, William Fairhurst, Pier Luigi Nervi, Structural engineer, Fabrizio de Miranda, François Coignet, Hardy Cross, Wilem Frischmann, William Rutherford Mead, John R. Hillman, W. Gene Corley, Eugène Freyssinet, Yu Hao, Ysrael Seinuk, Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, August Komendant, Edmund Hambly, Nicolò Barattieri, Émile Nouguier, Tung Hua Lin, Joseph Strauss, Lu Ban, Satish Mohan, Fritz Leonhardt, Joseph Treffry, William Brown, Tung-Yen Lin, Frei Otto, Nabih Youssef, Hannskarl Bandel, Fred Severud, Frank Newby, Povl Ahm, Michel Virlogeux, Peyman Askari Nejad, Edwin Airey, Eaton Hodgkinson, George H. Bryan, Gabor Acs, Edmund Happold, William George Nicholson Geddes, Jörg Schlaich, Mao Yisheng, Gerhard Jack Zunz, Eduardo Torroja, Neilly Davies Consulting Engineers, François Hennebique, Mladen Savovic, J. Augustine DeSazilly, Conrad Roland, Jaroslav Joseph Polivka, Henry T. Yang, Ray W. Clough, Sarah Guppy, Franz Dischinger, Anthony Hunt, Bobby Jones, Mike Glover, William LeMessurier, C.A.P. Turner, Josef Stenbäck, John Argyris, Charles Alton Ellis, Riccardo Morandi, Hilario Fernández Long, Maurice Koechlin, Margot Taule, Tony Fitzpatrick, George W. Housner, William Hazledine, Michael P. Collins, Cai Xiang, Temel Kotil, Alberto Palacio, Stephen Kennedy, Ian Liddell, Carl Culmann, Alexander Hrennikoff, Michael Dickson, William Selim Hanna, Nikolai Nikitin, Peter Thomas Dunican, Li Guohao, RFR Engineers, Peter DiMaggio, List of structural engineers, Raymond Ho, André Waterkeyn, Charles Labelye, John Waddell, John Blume, Edmond Coignet, Mark Serrurier, Henry Combs, William Atkins, Henry J. Degenkolb, Ralph Freeman, Frederick Snow, Louis-Alexandre de Cessart, Kiyoshi Muto, Aristoteles Philippidis, Felix Samuely, Jeremiah Burnham Tainter, Charles Lee Powell, Ted Belytschko. Excerpt: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 - 15 September 1859), was a leading British civil engineer, famed for his bridges and dockyards, and especially for the construction of the first major British railway, the Great Western Railway; a series of famous steamships, including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship; and numerous important bridges and tunnels. His designs revolutionised public transport and modern engineering. Though Brunel's projects were not always successful, they often contained innovative solutions to long-standing engineering problems. During his short career, Brunel achieved many engineering "firsts", including assisting in the building of the first tunnel under a navigable river and development of SS Great Britain, the first propeller-driven ocean-going iron ship, which was at the time (1843) also the largest ship ever built. Brunel set the standard for a very well-built railway, using careful surveys to minimise grades and curves. That necessitated expensive construction techniques and new bridges and viaducts, and the famous two-mile-long Box Tunnel. One controversial feature was the wide gauge, a "broad gauge" of.