On Thursday afternoon (June 4), the EIL students joined Professor Berry 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 (Gill Howard) gave an excellent historical timeline for this great nineteenth
century engineering feat including discussions of the personal toll its construction took on the laborers. Completed in 1834, this was the
world's first underwater tunnel. Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his father, Marc Brunel, were considered by many
to be the greatest engineers of Victorian England.
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