There is a detailed bibliography and resources section giving background information on nineteenth-century technology, travel and culture, as well as the life and work of Brunel on the Brunel 200 website.

Other information that may be of interest includes:
George Francis Train
Allen Foster (2002) Around the World with Citizen Train: the sensational adventures of the real Phileas Fogg Merlin Publishing. Extracts from this books can be read on Allen Foster’s website [http://www.allenfoster.com].
Patricia G Holland ‘George Francis Train and the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1867-70’ on the website of the University of Iowa [http://www.lib.uiowa.edu].
Mark Twain’s letter to the New York Tribune about Train on the website www.twainquotes.com [http://www.twainquotes.com].

Mike Todd
The American Wildscreen Museum section on Todd-AO [http://www.widescreenmuseum.com].
The New York Times’ Movies section on Around the World in Eighty Days [http://movies2.nytimes.com].
An Interview with Mike Todd, Jr on the in70mm.com website [http://www.in70mm.com].
Cinerama Adventure section on Mike Todd [http://www.cineramaadventure.com].

Great Exhibition
Section on the Victorian Station website [http://www.victorianstation.com].
Great Exhibition Collection section on the V&A Museum website [http://www.vam.ac.uk].
When the Hyde Park exhibition closed in 1851, the Crystal Palace was dismantled and later re-erected and extended at Sydenham (Brunel designed two water towers as part of the development) where it became known as The Palace of the People. The Crystal Place Foundation [http://www.crystalpalacefoundation.org.uk] has further information about the structure and the site. J R Piggott’s book The Palace of the People: the Crystal Palace at Sydenham 1854-1936 was published in 2004 by Hurst and Company.

Thomas Cook
Piers Brendon (1991) Thomas Cook: 150 years of popular tourism Secker & Warburg.
150th anniversary travel article on Mirror.co.uk [http://www.mirror.co.uk].

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