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HISTORY OF NEYLAND, including Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Lord Gordon Parry.
Brunel and his 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 Trevethick invents steam engine to run on rails
1805 Battle of Trafalgar
1806 ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL BORN
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
1820 BRUNEL GOES TO FRANCE
1820 Ampere's Laws of Electro-dynamic Action
1821 Faraday invents the electric motor
1822 BRUNEL ENTERS FATHER'S OFFICE AT 16
1823 Babbage begins his calculating machine
1825 Stockton and Darlington Railway opened
1825 William Crawshay builds Cyfarthfa Castle, merthyr Tydfil
at cost of £30,000.00
1826 BRUNEL, ENGINEER IN CHARGE OF THAMES TUNNEL CONSTRUCTION
1827 Ohm's Law stated
1829 Stephenson's Rocket wins Rainhill Trials
1830 BRUNEL WINS SECOND CLIFTON BRIDGE COMPETITION
1831 CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE
1832 First Reform Bill
1833 BRUNEL CARRIES OUT WORK ON BRISTOL DOCKS and
G.W.R. ROUTE SURVEY
1834 Tolpuddle Martyrs
1836 BRUNEL MARRIES MARY HORSLEY
1837 Queen Victoria succeeds to throne
1837 BRUNEL LAUNCHES "GREAT WESTERN"
1839 People's Charter
1841 BRUNEL COMPLETES TAFF VALE RAILWAY
1841 Birth of Sir Henry Morton STANLEY (of Africa)
1841 BRUNEL OPENS LONDON TO BRISTOL LINE
1843 BRUNEL OPENS THAMES TUNNEL and LAUNCHES "GREAT BRITAIN"
1843 List of Ships arriving in Australia
1848 BRUNEL COOMENCES WORK ON SALTASH BRIDGE
1848 'Year of Revolutions'
1849 'David Copperfield'
1851 'The Great Exhibition'
1852 BRUNEL OPENS CHEPSTOW BRIDGE
1854-5 Crimean War
1855 BRUNEL BUILDS PREFABRICATED HOSPITAL FOR CRIMEA
1855 Lawrence's turret lathe invented
1856 Bessemer's steel-making process
1858 BRUNEL LAUNCHES "GREAT EASTERN"
1859 'Origin of Species' and Tale of Two Cities'
1859 BRUNEL OPENS SALTASH BRIDGE
1859 BRUNEL DIES
1860's Great American Railways constructed
Interesting Web-Sites relating to ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL which may be of use to those carrying out research into the life and times of the great man.
I K Brunel - 1 www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel.html
I K Brunel - 2 http://web.ukonline.co.uk/b.gardner/brunel/kingbrun.html
I K Brunel - 3 http://web.ukonline.co.uk/b.gardner/brunel/kingbrun.html
I K Brunel - 4 www.structurae.de/en/people/data/des0002.php
I K Brunel - 5 http://www.ss-great-britain.com/3.htm
I K Brunel - 6 http://www.ss-great-britain.com/8.htm
I K Brunel - 7 www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/greatbritons/gb_brunel_isambard.shtml
I K Brunel - 8 www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/brunel_kingdom_isambard.shtml
I K Brinel - 9 http://www.bris.ac.uk/is/services/specialcollections/brunel.html
I K Brunel - 10 www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/mech/ikb.htm
I K Brunel - 11 http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh/ART14076.html
I K Brunel - 12 http://www.museumweb.freeserve.co.uk/ikbrunel.htm
I K Brunel - 13 http://web.ukonline.co.uk/b.gardner/brunel/marcbrun.html
I K Brunel - 14 www.britainexpress.com/History/bio/brunel.htm
I K Brunel - 15 www.brush4.co.uk/galery.piccbbw0084.html
I K Brunel - 16 www.steam-museum.org.uk/stm-dislays/stm-displays-brunel.htm
I K Brunel - 17 www.the-telfords.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/victorians/brunel.htm
I K Brunel - 18 www.empiremuseum.co.uk
I K Brunel - 19 www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/staff/imurray/brunel.asp
I K Brunel - 20 www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Temple_Meads_Station-html
I K Brunel - 21 http://website.lineone.net/~carpenter9
I K Brunel - 22 www.strum.co.uk/wessex/swindon2.htm
I K Brunel - 23 www.strum.co.uk/wessex/swindon3.htm
I K Brunel - 24 www.strum.co.uk/wessex/swindon4.htm
I K Brunel - 25 www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel
I K Brunel - 26 www.museumweb.freeserve.co.uk
I K Brunel - 27 www.steam-museum.org.uk
I K Brunel - 28 www.brunel.de
I K Brunel - 29 www.cwhistory.com
POST ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL
1890's Gaddarn Ship-building in Neyland
1900 Queen Mother born
1903 Construction of Bethesda Chapel, Neyland completed.
1904 Great Revival
1910 General Election
1918/ Russian Civil War
1920
1928 Future Lord Gordon Parry born in a snowstorm
1930 Jazz in the 1930's
1933 Land Settlement Houses built at Honeyborough
1933 Rev T L Parry competes with rival minister by bringing Settlement
Residents to Chapel by Horse and trap
1930's?Three visiting New Zealand All Blacks play for Neyland Rugby Team,
resulting in Neyland Rugby team being only team in world allowed to
wear famous Silver Fern
1940 Battle of Britain
1950 Television in the 50's
1952/ Kenya
1960
1964 Beeching's Closure of Neyland Railway Station
1970 Glastonbury Festival formed
1974 Discovery of Terracota Army in Xian, China
1978 Neyland Ladies Choir formed
1980 Cricket in the 80's
1985 Commencement of work on Neyland Marina
1990 Panda Sanctuary established in China
1990 Hope MS Centre opened at Honeyborough Business Park
1999 Unveiling by H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales of Statue of
ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL
2002 Sarah Waters, Neyland born, wins CWA Ellis Peters Historical Daggers
Prize 2002 for "Fingersmith"
2003 Broadband comes to Neyland.
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