Isambard Kingdom Brunel1829
Brunel submits designs to the competition for a suspension bridge across the Avon Gorge at Clifton.
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Brunel submits designs to the competition for a suspension bridge across the Avon Gorge at Clifton.
A ceremony marks the start of construction and work begins on the Clifton side of the gorge.
Construction is halted after the Bristol riots damage confidence and stop subscriptions to the bridge company.
Brunel secures acceptance of his revised suspension bridge design and becomes project engineer.
Construction resumes after renewed commercial confidence brings further investment to the project.
The main contractors fail financially, but the bridge towers are raised in unfinished stone.
Funds are exhausted and construction stops before the chains and roadway can be completed.
Chains from Brunel's dismantled Hungerford Suspension Bridge are purchased for use in completing the Clifton bridge.
Construction restarts under a revised design by William Henry Barlow and John Hawkshaw.
The Clifton Suspension Bridge opens to the public as a memorial to Brunel five years after his death.
The completed structure is tested by placing about five hundred tons of stone across the bridge deck.
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