The English have always had a bit of a thing about tunnelling - just think of all those soldiers that managed to break out ...

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 ...

ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL:I'm going to tell you something ... This identifies a number of possible topics for further research: Thames Tunnel Clifton Suspension Bridge Paddington Station Steamships ...

There had been a number of different attempts to tunnel under the Thames, including one by ... an engineering genius in the form of Marc Isambard Brunel to recognise the difficulty of the task ...

A memorial window was erected in Westminster Abbey in 1868 to commemorate the famous engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Originally sited on the north side of the nave it was moved to the south side and ...

Engineer Marc Isambard Brunel built the world’s first underwater tunnel, the Thames Tunnel, not his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (Getty) On Monday we reported the efforts of Rachel Reeves ...

London-based Isembard, named after the revered civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was founded last year by entrepreneur Alexander Fitzgerald. The company is developing high-tech factories ...

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 ...

Oversize expectations: The Great Eastern vessel was supposed to cap the career of its ill-fated designer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (before ... of the ship on the Thames River in 1857.