Brunel , before this had become quite so clear as it rapidly did become, looked at the system, and thought he was going to redo it from scratch, because that's
Brunel invested a lot of money in it himself, because that division between the engineer and the capital raising function was blurred back then.
And Brunel 's a rather culty figure now, and I think he fits a certain modern idea of what a genius and innovator should be,
And Brunel implemented it on a huge scale on the line down in the south Devon.
from Brunel 's time have run their course and, indeed, they're part of the problem today in many cases.
So this is Brunel , if you like, at his most dedicated, and dogged, and innovative, but also just completely, completely wrong.
But this is Kingdom Brunel , and he was a truly great engineer, and I think, design thinker from the 19th century in Britain.
And what Brunelleschi was very famous for doing is he built this enormous dome without using any internal scaffolding.
And Filippo Brunelleschi becomes Phil.
Giotto was an artist who preceded Brunelleschi by about 40 or 50 years and in whose art you first start seeing the beginnings of a perspectival system
And this is very soon after the Brunelleschi experiments, but you will see often that this kind of system of thinking
And the genius behind the Great Western was Brunel .
So in a sense, Brunel was trying to solve a problem that rapidly didn't exist.
Brunel didn't invent it.
You know, Brunel worked during the height of the Industrial Revolution, when every piece of our economy and society was getting reinvented.
Now, Brunel may have asked this question, "How to I take a train from London to New York?"
But I like to go back to Brunel here, and propose a possible connection as to why this is happening now, why it didn't happen 20
saint of modern engineering, a guy named Filippo Brunelleschi, and it's a perspective experiment.
the emergence of design as a profession, I really think that Brunel was using design thinking to come up with great innovations and world-changing designs.
of thinking about design in a more expansive way, more like Brunel , less like a priesthood of professionals.
Just look. Shortly after the science of perspective was discovered by Brunelleschi around 1430,
But it was a terrible idea, and Brunel had his good friend but often friendly rival Robert Stephenson, son of George Stephenson, telling him so.
What was remarkable about Brunel when he built
And just like Brunel , by focusing on systems,
When they were made conscious, as geometric theorems and discoveries, astonishing achievements, that when Brunelleschi discovered