Brunel's race to cross the Atlantic
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Just under 200 years ago, a race was underway to see which would be the first steamship to cross the Atlantic.
A British engineer called Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed the SS Great Western to try and achieve this.
It was a wooden hulled steamship with masts, sails and a paddle wheel.
The SS Great Western was narrowly beaten by the SS Sirius, which became the first steamship to cross the Atlantic.
Brunel then designed and built the SS Great Britain, the first iron steamship with a propeller to cross the Atlantic.
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