Now the entry shaft to the Thames Tunnel, whose sweeping staircase ... the first underwater tunnel in the world - built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his father Marc - is one of the most ...

The 200-year-old plans for the world's first underwater tunnel from the family archive of legendary engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel are tipped to sell for £100,000. The 1,300ft long Thames ...

Brunel’s father ... the world’s first tunnel to be dug under a navigable river, beneath London’s River Thames from Rotherhithe to Wapping, and for his patented tunneling shield which ...

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 ...

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 ...

this is the ancestor of the Channel Tunnel. Constructed by Sir Marc Isambard Brunel and his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel ... problems of tunnelling below the Thames was to use an iron shield ...

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 ...

Isambard Kingdom Brunel's first building project is to ... The 65ft-deep Rotherhithe entrance shaft to the Thames Tunnel will be opened for events in a scheme conceived by the Brunel Museum.

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 ...