I believe, (I could be wrong), that this is a photo of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the man who built the steamship Great Eastern, launched in 1858. He’s posing beside the massive chains and one of the windlasses that were used to slow the ship’s slide into the Thames. The ship was about five times the size of any contemporary ship.
I believe, (I could be wrong), that this is a photo of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the man who built the steamship Great Eastern, launched in 1858. He’s posing beside the massive chains and one of the windlasses that were used to slow the ship’s slide into the Thames. The ship was about five times the size of any contemporary ship.