Thames Tunnel
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The Thames Tunnel is a tunnel beneath the River Thames in London, connecting Rotherhithe and Wapping. It measures 35 ft wide by 20 ft high and is 1,300 ft long, running at a depth of 75 ft below the r
Inside the Thames Tunnel in the mid-19th century
A scale model of the tunnelling shield at the Brunel Museum at Rotherhithe
The Thames Tunnel excavation as it was, probably around 1840
An 1870 view of a train exiting the Thames Tunnel at Wapping
Marc Isambard Brunel
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Sir Marc Isambard Brunel was a French-British engineer who is most famous for the work he did in Britain. He constructed the Thames Tunnel, the world's first underwater tunnel, and was the father of I
Thames Tunnel
…at high tide. It is the first tunnel known to have been constructed successfully underneath a navigable river. It was built between 1825 and 1843 by Marc Brunel, and his son, Isambard, using the tunnelling shield newly invented by the elder Brunel and Thomas Cochrane. The tunnel was originally designed for…
Portrait of Marc Isambard Brunel by James Northcote, 1813
Bust of Marc Isambard Brunel, Science Museum, London
English Heritage blue plaque at 98 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
One multiple- and one single-sheave pulley block for rigging on a sailing ship