Stanley Hooker "Not Much of an Engineer"

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Originally Posted by Warmtoast

FWIW BBC have a downloadable Podcast about Brunel's life here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b04nvbp1

That's a very interesting podcast--I must listen to it again. IIRC, it's pointed out in it that part of the idea of engineering is to make money, and that's one area where the Stephensons were better than Brunel. A great man, indeed, but maybe his preference for the heroic over the profitable was a bad example.