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== References == === Citations === {{Reflist|2}} {{Refbegin}} {{Refend}} ===Sources=== {{refbegin|2|indent=y}} * {{cite book |author=American Academy of Arts and Sciences |title=Book of Members, 1780–present |url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf |access-date=7 November 2017}} * {{cite book |last=Bagust |first=Harold |date=2006 |title=The Greater Genius? A biography of Marc Isambard Brunel |publisher=Ian Allan Publishing |location=Hersham |isbn=0-7110-3175-4 |oclc=255313889}} * {{cite letter | last = Brunel | first = Marc Isambard, Sir | recipient = Louis Antoine Breguet | subject = Concerning Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Breguet, Breguet's friendship and instruction, entry to l'Ecole Polytechnique, Franceur, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and holidays, appreciation of the Breguets. | language = fr | date = 19 February 1822 | url = http://oac.lib.bris.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqServer=its-calmdb-p.cse.bris.ac.uk&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28RefNo%3D%27DM1277%2F4%27%29 | access-date = 7 November 2017 | publisher = University of Bristol Library Special Collections | id = DM1277/4 }} * {{cite book |first=Keith Reginald |last=Gilbert |date=1965 |title=The Portsmouth Block-Making Machinery: A Pioneering Enterprise in Mass Production |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |place=London |url=https://archive.org/details/portsmputh-blockmaking-machinery}} * {{cite book |last1=Kentley |first1=Eric |last2=Hulse |first2=Robert |last3=Elton |first3=Julia |title=The Brunels' Tunnel |year=2006 |publisher=Institution of Civil Engineers |isbn=0-9504361-2-7}} * {{cite book |last = Hyman |first = Anthony |author-link=R. Anthony Hyman|title=Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer| year = 1982 |location = Princeton, NJ | publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |isbn = 0691083037 |pages = 143f | url = https://archive.org/details/charlesbabbagepi0000hyma/page/142 | access-date = 22 April 2025 | url-access = registration | quote = Brunel was a [French] royalist and after service on a corvette escaped to the United States. There he worked for six years as architect and engineer, taking American citizenship. Brunel came to England seeking a contract to design block-making machinery for the Portsmouth naval dockyard... [p. 144]}} * {{Cite book |last=Rolt |first=L. T. C. |title=Isambard Kingdom Brunel |date=1957 |publisher=Longman Group}}{{full|date=April 2025}} * {{Cite book |last1=Waterston |first1=C D |last2=Shearer |first2=A Macmillan |title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002 |date=July 2006 |publisher=[[Royal Society of Edinburgh]] |volume=Part I, A-J |isbn=0-902-198-84-X |url=http://www.rse.org.uk/fellowship/fells_indexp1.pdf |access-date=7 November 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004113545/http://www.rse.org.uk/fellowship/fells_indexp1.pdf |archive-date=4 October 2006 |df=dmy-all}} {{refend}} === Further reading === {{refbegin}} * {{cite book | last = Coad | first = Jonathan | title = The Portsmouth Block Mills : Bentham, Brunel and the start of the Royal Navy's Industrial Revolution | year = 2005 | publisher = [[English Heritage]] | isbn = 1-873592-87-6 }} * {{cite book | last = Roe | first = Joseph Wickham | title = English and American Tool Builders | publisher = [[Yale University Press]] | year = 1916 | location = New Haven, Connecticut | url = https://archive.org/details/englishandameri01roegoog | lccn = 16011753 }} Reprinted by [[McGraw-Hill]], New York and London, 1926 ({{LCCN|27024075}}); and by Lindsay Publications, Inc., Bradley, Illinois, ({{ISBN| 978-0-917914-73-7}}). {{refend}}
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