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 ...

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 was the son of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849) and Sophia Kingdom (d.1854) and was born at Portsea, Portsmouth. With his father he worked on the Rotherhithe tunnel, the first to run ...

London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom, is a modern-day city ... There had been a number of different attempts to tunnel under the Thames, including one by British inventor and ...

Heralded as the Eighth Wonder of the World, Marc Brunel's tunnel under the Thames opened as a public walkway in 1843.Thames Tunnel peep show, 1843 Heralded as the Eighth Wonder of the World ...

Engineer Marc Isambard Brunel built the world’s first underwater tunnel, the Thames Tunnel, not his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (Getty) On Monday we reported the efforts of Rachel Reeves ...

Oversize expectations: The Great Eastern vessel was supposed to cap the career of its ill-fated designer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (before ... of the ship on the Thames River in 1857.

Cyclists will be able to use a shuttle service when using a new £2.2bn tunnel under the River Thames when it opens next month, Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed. Opening on 7 April ...

From particle accelerators to portals through Switzerland's famous Alps, today's tunnels built with advanced Tunnel Boring Machines make Brunel's original London Thames tunnel seem tiny by comparison.