Interior view of the Thames Tunnel, London, 1830. Artist: Anon
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Interior view of the Thames Tunnel, London, 1830. The Thames Tunnel, connecting Wapping and Rotherhithe, was the first underwater tunnel in the world. Completed as a foot tunnel in 1843, it was converted to a railway tunnel for the East London Railway in the 1860s. Sir Marc Isambard Brunel designed the tunnel, and his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was site engineer.
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- Anon, attributed to: :
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- Isambard Kingdom Brunel: British: Engineer, designer, inventor
- Sir Marc Isambard Brunel: British: Civil engineer
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