Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Jeremy Clarkson Pt1 ~ 6

[pangapanga333]

'comparisons are odius'

I stood on the Menai Bridge many years ago and touched those magnificent chains. It is not shameful to work all your life for your country and its people.

[VasilisBotoulas]

Does anyone have Newton or Darwin?...

[McLarenMercedes]

Today people admire the late Steve Jobs, blissfully unaware he stole a lot of ideas from others and only had the "insight" to market stuff consevative business tycoon's didn't see much future in.

If we had a Isambard Kingdom Brunel today he (or she) would most likely be some obscure little heard of genius, today's media driven world wouldn't have bothered with, At the same time people shout "genius!" every time a new IPad (pointless accessory) is released. Sigh.

Different times I guess.

[elquemando]

@neil73 The first steam-driven railroad in France linked Saint-Étienne and Andrézieux (June 30, 1827)

[pilotmonkey]

Would have liked to see an engineer present this instead of naff Clarkson.

[blackvapour]

This show was great, apart from the inclusion of Diana...

[SuperPrivate2011]

Thank you so much for posting these videos.

[MinorHeadstorm]

I did an a level essay copying this and got a B lmao

[sundancekid122]

looked half decent but the british nationalism is disguisting.

[Bizzie1974]

@sundancekid122 Its called British history you idiot, try reading anything on the industrial revolution and then make comments!

[SuperPrivate2011]

@sundancekid122 This isn't nationalism you retard, it's patriotism - something quite different

[TimBrewin]

@sundancekid122 It isn't nationalism, it's truth

[teddythebenny]

y do they have to use the term BRAVE NEW WORLD.... ahhhh.. i envy u Aldous Huxley..

[elquemando]

Was Britain then so far advanced beyond the rest of Europe? This is jingoistic claptrap

[cleverandrew123]

@elquemando - Ever heard of the Industrial Revolution?

[galenwolf]

@elquemando actually its quite true with the industrial revolution.The whole of the Great Exhibition of 1851 was to celebrate it.

[SuperPrivate2011]

@elquemando Yes it was that far advanced from the rest of Europe. It isn't jingoistic, it's factual.

[TimBrewin]

@elquemando No it isn't. It's the truth. Or History. Call it what you will, but it all happened.

[XProSamzX]

thanks helped me wid my history project :)

[rock3tcat]

This is why I want to become an engineer! :D

[mocyoung]

This is the greatest piece of television documentary ever.

[VasilisBotoulas]

Hate to burst your bubble kids, but he was half English and half French...

[20PhantoM07]

This has been gone from youtube for some time, thanks so much ;-)

[ednuttah]

Clarkson on a train. On a train. On an actual train. Clarkson is on a train. Shocking. Must have left his car keys in the carriage.

[STOPTHEEU]

@ednuttah Nothing wrong with trains....

[ednuttah]

@STOPTHEEU No but he never travels on them! You don't know Jezza that well then!

[STOPTHEEU]

@ednuttah He's driven one....

[ednuttah]

@STOPTHEEU No he shovelled coal.

[STOPTHEEU]

@ednuttah Which is a rather critical aspect of driving a train....

[ednuttah]

@STOPTHEEU Not really firemen were coal shovellers engine drivers were the drivers hence why they were called engine drivers. Very confusing for you perhaps.

[STOPTHEEU]

@ednuttah I know that... I used to be a steam train spotter....

The point is the train doesn't move without coal does it? Hmmmm?

Not unless your pushing it behind? lol

[ednuttah]

@STOPTHEEU No the point is Clarkson is on a TRAIN he is not a public transport man is he.

[ThomasR099]

@ednuttah in the episode where they have the race between the black shadow bike, jag and the steam train, you find out he's actually also a train affecionado

[ednuttah]

@ThomasR099 Yes yes I'm sure.

[aymthebest]

@ednuttah Clarkson WELL-DRESSED !

[walyern]

@ednuttah At least in this case, he's not stoking coal. XD

[neil73]

I.K Brunel, born in England, so he's English! Your nationality is where ever you are born! Fucking hell! I thought everyone knew that!

BTW, The French didnt have railways until the 1860's

[FeignofCordor]

He got m vote, .........John Lennon ...Don`t make me laugh....He just took drugs and banged on about peace from a bed.......No Brunel was the best of British

[sellblock1138]

all I say was jeremy clarkson, the hoast of my favorite T.V. show and Brunel, my favorite engineer, so I had to watch.

very well done.

[alexkrycek21]

Clarkson couldn't have done this any better.

[SuperEverton1976]

It should have been IKB, What would churchill be remembered as if it wasn't for war. IKB changed the world, The greatest ever Briton, not French. Marc his dad left France to become British.

[pashby3]

. . .Gundabalf, - Grande-Bretagne a été français depuis, dix Sixtysix!. Français par Nom...

[MrMorg19]

@pashby3 The Normans weren't french if that's what you're trying to say, they were Vikiing Nomads who had moved to Normandy before springboarding to England. And on that note I say agincourt

[gipcambero]

@MrMorg19

I know it's hard to you British to hear that the Normans were French. Go to Normandy and see by yourself if the Normans look Danish or French. Then if they were really viking why did they desttroy the anglo Saxon culture of England to replace it by a French one

[gipcambero]

@MrMorg19

I forgot, Richard Lionheart was French, never learnt English, spent only 11 months of his life in England... to raise taxe

[gundabalf]

so the greatest briton ever was french?! :)))

[Dragsteryourself]

@gundabalf, his father was, but his mum was english. So he was only half-french.

[gipcambero]

@Dragsteryourself

If you see his biography you clearly understand that he went to the same school and university as the average French elite. His engineer formation is French not British

[Dragsteryourself]

@gipcambero, No he wasn't you bias french-man and I'm repeating it if you didn't quite understand, he was born and raised in England, to a french father and an english mum, I don't give a fuck whether he was under the french elite or engineering or not, he was, (saying as a non-brit/english), making HIS country (UK) to look better, if you're telling he wasn't, why didn't he move to France in the first place ever since he learned to walk on his foot and didn't end up passing there?

[ToneSpectra]

@gundabalf Isambard Kingdom was British actually, an Englishman born in Portsmouth, Hampshire. You must be thinking of his father Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, who was born in France.

[blackvapour]

@gundabalf Born and raised in Britain = British, have to be pretty daft to believe he is French. Although I'm not entirely surprised considering how backward France has been compared to the UK throughout history.

[Fac5111]

One of the best documentaries ever done. Thanks so much for uploading.

[disamjisa]

@Fac5111 Have you seen Clarkson's other documentaries? They're all pretty good

[patriotofliberty1776]

@Fac5111 While great, the documentary exaggerates his accomplishments as assuredly as Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt's hagiography of Brunel. In many cases, other engineers came along to correct Brunel's missteps and miscalculations, and Brunel is often given sole credit for projects in which he was only a secondary engineer. As the Electronic Telegraph reported, "Isambard Kingdom Brunel did not design Clifton Suspension Bridge," says historian.