Plan, sections and elevations of the Thames Tunnel, London mb-code 1239458 standing with her arms folded

standing with her arms folded

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Plan, sections and elevations of the Thames Tunnel, London mb-code 1239458 standing with her arms foldedPlan, sections and elevations of the Thames Tunnel, London, 1835. 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.