On Monday afternoon (July 4), the EIL students joined Profs. Berry
and Aaron 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 (Khalil Mohammed) 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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