Brunel’s tunnelling shield consisted of a grid of iron frames that could be pressed against the tunnel face. Poling boards, which were a set of horizontal wooden planks, supported the iron ...

The boulders, which turned out to be made of sandstone, were preserved by Brunel himself and remained near the site of the Great Western Railway Tunnel No.1. It would remain near the train station ...

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 ...

ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL:'If there was a river, I would build a bridge over it. If there was a hill, I would build a tunnel through it. ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL:'There was no problem that ...

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 ...

Victoria Rance, who lives close to the A102 in Greenwich, said that the tunnel should be repurposed so that it can only be used by bikes and buses. “I feel it will be repurposed at some point in the ...

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.

and in 1875 an Act of Parliament authorised the Channel Tunnel Company to begin trials – inspired, perhaps, by the success of Brunel’s Thames Tunnel, which opened in 1843. Engineers got as far ...

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 ...

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 ...