His flat, two-arched Maidenhead Bridge can be seen in (*) Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed, and he sort of won the "battle of the gauges" by proving wider gauges make for smoother rides.  
R. Angus Buchanan's biography of this man opens by describing controversy over the removing of a cigar from a famous photograph of him standing in front of a set of giant chains.  His father gained fame for coming up with a way to mechanically produce ship pulleys, and this man would later work with his father on a project spanning from Wapping to Rotherhithe (+) where he was severely injured.  One of his projects failed due to rats consuming the tallow used to lace pipes, dubbed by Devonians as his "Atmospheric Caper".   His flat, two-arched Maidenhead Bridge can be seen in (*) Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed, and he sort of won the "battle of the gauges" by proving wider gauges make for smoother rides.  Also responsible for the Thames Tunnel, FTP, identify this creator of giant ships like the Great Britain and Great Eastern and the engineer of the Great Western Railway.
R. Angus Buchanan's biography of this man opens by describing controversy over the removing of a cigar from a famous photograph of him standing in front of a set of giant chains.  
Isambard Kingdom {Brunel} [4]