{"id":34,"date":"2009-04-27T16:45:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T16:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/?p=34"},"modified":"2009-05-25T12:58:31","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T12:58:31","slug":"brunel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/brunel\/","title":{"rendered":"Brunel"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m working on Part 2 of Lovelace and Babbage vs the economy but I had to draw this for some reason:
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel was like the Wolverine of the early Victorians.\u00a0 He was short, ripped, had big sideburns, smoked 50 cigars a day, AND KICKED EVERYONE’S ASS!!<\/p>\n

Okay, I don’t know for a fact that he was ripped.\u00a0 It’s hard to tell:<\/p>\n

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I’m struggling with the unforgiving black-and-white—- pretty much all the drawing I’ve done, I noodle happily with a soft blue pencil and then leave it that (or some poor sap had to clean it up). I think it reads better on screen than half-tones though; plus it’s good discipline; plus in a weird way you can get away with more stuff.<\/p>\n

Some of the serious research us here at L&B enterprises have been doing:<\/p>\n

OMG how cool is this– LEGO DIFFERENCE ENGINE!<\/a><\/p>\n

Or, with some really nice videos of the Awesome Might of the Difference Engine– Mechano Difference Engine!<\/a><\/p>\n

And, if you can HANDLE THIS:\u00a0 Babbage’s BRAAAAAAIIIIIINNSSS!! at the Science Museum.<\/p>\n

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I’m working on Part 2 of Lovelace and Babbage vs the economy but I had to draw this for some reason: Isambard Kingdom Brunel was like the Wolverine of the early Victorians.\u00a0 He was short, ripped, had big sideburns, smoked 50 cigars a day, AND KICKED EVERYONE’S ASS!! Okay, I don’t know for a fact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meanwhile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}