Sir
In the excellent article “Eighteen-ninety-nine and all that”, Isambard Kingdom Brunel is said to have died in 1869 (Nature 397, 15–18; 1999). Would that he had! We would have had ten years more of one of the world's greatest engineers.
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Firth, N. Engineering a longer life. Nature 398, 19 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/17901
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