PREFACE.

CONTENTS

LIST OF REPORTS AND OTHER ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE. A.D. 1806—1828.

NOTE A (p. 5).

NOTE B (p. 5).

CHAPTER II. THE CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE. A.D. 1829—1853. ÆTATIS 24—48.

NOTE (p. 58).

CHAPTER III. EARLY HISTORY OF THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. A.D. 1833—1835. ÆTATIS 27—30.

CHAPTER IV. RAILWAY WORKS. A.D. 1835—1859. ÆTATIS 30—54.

CHAPTER V. THE BROAD GAUGE.

CHAPTER VI. THE ATMOSPHERIC SYSTEM. A.D. 1840—1848. ÆTATIS 35—43.

NOTE (p. 143).

CHAPTER VII. RAILWAY BRIDGES AND VIADUCTS.

NOTE, (pp. 182, 194, 209).

CHAPTER VIII. STEAM NAVIGATION. THE ‘GREAT WESTERN’ STEAM-SHIP. A.D. 1835—1847. ÆTATIS 30—42.

NOTE (p. 235).

CHAPTER IX. STEAM NAVIGATION. THE ‘GREAT BRITAIN’ STEAM-SHIP. A.D. 1838—1847. ÆTATIS 33—42.

NOTE (p. 255).

CHAPTER X. STEAM NAVIGATION. INTRODUCTION OF THE SCREW PROPELLER INTO THE ROYAL NAVY. A.D. 1841—1844. ÆTATIS 36—39.

CHAPTER XI. STEAM NAVIGATION—THE ‘GREAT EASTERN’ STEAM-SHIP, FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE UNDERTAKING TO THE LAUNCH. A.D. 1851—1857. ÆTATIS 46—52.

CHAPTER XII. STEAM NAVIGATION—THE ‘GREAT EASTERN’ STEAM-SHIP. THE LAUNCH. A.D. 1857—1858. ÆTATIS 52.

NOTE A (pp. 348, 368, 372).

NOTE B (p. 384).

CHAPTER XIII. STEAM NAVIGATION—THE ‘GREAT EASTERN’ STEAM-SHIP. COMPLETION AND SUBSEQUENT HISTORY. A.D. 1858-1859: ÆTATIS 52-54. A.D. 1859-1870.

NOTE (p. 395).

CHAPTER XIV. DOCK AND PIER WORKS. A.D. 1831—1859. ÆTATIS 26—54.

CHAPTER XV. MISCELLANEOUS WORKS.

CHAPTER XVI. MR. BRUNEL’S PROFESSIONAL OPINIONS AND PRACTICE.

CHAPTER XVII. PRIVATE LIFE.

APPENDIX I. (See Chapter V. on the Broad Gauge, p. 99.)

APPENDIX II. (See Chapter IX. on the ‘Great Britain’ Steam-Ship, p. 254.) Report to the Directors of the Great Western Steam-Ship Company.

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