On Tuesday afternoon (July 6), the EIL students joined Profs. Berry and Parsons for a visit to the Brunel Museum at Rotherhithe on the bank of the Thames River. In the original shaft of the tunnel (under the Thames River) that Marc and Isambard (Kingdom) Brunel designed and built, our guide (Kal) gave an excellent historical timeline for this great nineteenth century engineering achievement. Completed in 1834, this was the world's first underwater tunnel. Isambard Brunel was considered by many to be the greatest engineer of Victorian England.
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