{"id":4037,"date":"2017-12-16T09:30:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T09:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/?p=4037"},"modified":"2017-12-15T10:43:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T10:43:37","slug":"25-days-inventors-isambard-kingdom-brunel-designing-road-rail-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/25-days-inventors-isambard-kingdom-brunel-designing-road-rail-tunnel\/","title":{"rendered":"25 DAYS OF INVENTORS: ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL &#038; DESIGNING  ROAD &#038; RAIL TUNNEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4038 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/brunel-min.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/brunel-min.png 400w, https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/brunel-min-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/brunel-min-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isambard Kingdom Brunel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a great English civil engineer who lived during the 19th century. He was the man who built the Great Western Railway, the railway company which linked London with the west part of England.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefamouspeople.com\/profiles\/isambard-kingdom-brunel-5387.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.thefamouspeople.com\/profiles\/isambard-kingdom-brunel-5387.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4040 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/road-and-rail-drawing-min.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/road-and-rail-drawing-min.png 400w, https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/road-and-rail-drawing-min-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/road-and-rail-drawing-min-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finn Brown a Secondary 2 student from St Joseph\u2019s College in Scotland has proposed \u2018Designing a Road and Rail Tunnel\u2019.<\/strong> The idea is to connect Scotland with Northern Ireland by both rail, utilising the Maglev system and road. The tunnel would be used by both passenger and freight traffic. Finn you are the next Brunel in the making!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4039 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/rail-and-road-letter-min.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/rail-and-road-letter-min.png 400w, https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/rail-and-road-letter-min-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/rail-and-road-letter-min-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4043\" src=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Designing-a-Road-and-Rail-Tunne.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Isambard Kingdom Brunel Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a great English civil engineer who lived during the 19th century. He was the man who built the Great Western Railway, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":4042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,66,55],"tags":[70,76,72,75],"class_list":["post-4037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas","category-leaders-award","category-scottish-engineering-leaders-award","tag-christmas","tag-engineers","tag-inventions","tag-inventors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>25 DAYS OF INVENTORS: ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL &amp; DESIGNING ROAD &amp; RAIL TUNNEL - Leaders Award<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadersaward.com\/25-days-inventors-isambard-kingdom-brunel-designing-road-rail-tunnel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"25 DAYS OF INVENTORS: ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL &amp; DESIGNING ROAD &amp; RAIL TUNNEL - Leaders Award\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Isambard Kingdom Brunel Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a great English civil engineer who lived during the 19th century. 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