From a passageway made by giant sloths to a slinky tunnel bridge and an 'entrance to hell' - there are some extraordinary ...
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 ...
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 ...
Right. Well, that really was absolute genius. But Brunel didn't stop with the Thames Tunnel. Brunel loved building bridges. And here in Bristol is his most famous one of all. The Clifton ...
Renovations are to be completed by summer 2025, in time to celebrate 200 years since construction began by at the site on ...
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 ...