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Isambard Kingdom Brunel is one of Britain's greatest-ever engineers. His first project was the Rotherhithe Shaft, the starting point for London's Thames Tunnel.
Richard Beamish, an engineer, tells of the time when he was employed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his father, Marc, to work on the Thames Tunnel. It was 1825 and no one had ever dug a tunnel ...
ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL:I'm going to tell you something ... This identifies a number of possible topics for further research: Thames Tunnel Clifton Suspension Bridge Paddington Station Steamships ...
The Thames Tunnel was completed in 1843, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his father Marc. Its construction claimed the lives of six men who drowned, including two who were swept away from ...
The influential 19 th-century British mechanical and civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Thames Tunnel in London was the first underground tunnel to be constructed successfully beneath a ...
The public is to get its first chance in 145 years to see an underwater tunnel by Isambard Kingdom Brunel that was a triumph of Victorian engineering. The Thames Tunnel is open today and tomorrow ...
There had been a number of different attempts to tunnel under the Thames, including one by ... an engineering genius in the form of Marc Isambard Brunel to recognise the difficulty of the task ...
It’s hoped renovations will create “a more inclusive and accessible space” to tell his stories, along with his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel ... known as the Thames Tunnel watercolours.
Tate Harmer is set to transform the shaft at the entrance to Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Thames Tunnel Rotherhithe into a performance space The London-based practice, which changed its name from Jerry ...