Post #2485713
2026-02-12 22:49 UTC
British engineer with the kick ass name Isambard Kingdom Brunel posing in front of chains in the 1850's.
If you can pull off a stove pipe hat like that, you get to be named Isambard Kingdom Brunel... damn
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@clew@ecoevo.social 2026-02-12 22:57
there's a whole book of him being shouty and irrational in writing. He was a genius but also shouty and irrational https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10351626-the-intemperate-engineer Or, just the fun parts, but with amazing real history in the amazing footnotes, https://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/the-book/ @ohyran@social.piewpiew.se
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@PAgent@social.chinwag.org 2026-02-13 02:43
@ohyran@social.piewpiew.se https://youtu.be/eaMQxDvfHEg