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Open to the public for the first time in 145 years, Brunel Tunnel under the Thames
Daily Mail ^
| March 12, 2010
| Staff
Posted on 03/12/2010 7:16:12 AM PST by C19fan
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The technique Brunel developed to build the tunnel is still used today; including building the Chunnel. I wish I can see it. Magnificant piece of Victorian engineering and ingenuity.
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posted on
03/12/2010 7:16:13 AM PST
by
C19fan
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To: C19fan
I read a book about the Brunels. They are simply geniuses.
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posted on
03/12/2010 7:22:05 AM PST
by
caver
(Obama: Home of the Whopper)
To: C19fan
I thought I recognized the name - but it was Marc Brunel’s son who built the Bristol (U.K.) suspension bridge. Very beautiful bridge, especially in the spring during the Bristol Hot-Air Balloon festival. Love Bristol!
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posted on
03/12/2010 7:24:56 AM PST
by
tgusa
(Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
To: caver
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posted on
03/12/2010 7:25:02 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: C19fan
WOW
That must be something...
To: SunkenCiv; Las Vegas Ron
To: Tennessee Nana
..and designed w/pencil & paper.
In some way, there was more common sense intelligence prevailing, before electronic intell., I mean.
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posted on
03/12/2010 7:33:25 AM PST
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: C19fan
When the ideas, imaginations and desires of man are allowed to move and grow freely, civilization grows, advances and flourishes.
Now, of course I'm NOT refering to the sin nature of man, but his more temporal abilities.
America is a wonderful example of what can happen in a short time when men with ideas and passion are allowed to make the attempt to succeed or fail.
Government, with all it's rules, regulations and laws stifle that momentum.
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posted on
03/12/2010 7:36:29 AM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: norraad
That’s because they memorized multiplication tables.
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posted on
03/12/2010 7:37:22 AM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: C19fan
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posted on
03/12/2010 7:43:05 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: hennie pennie
Very interesting, thank you for the ping!
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posted on
03/12/2010 7:49:02 AM PST
by
Las Vegas Ron
("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM, where are you?)
To: C19fan
Thats why Tiny Tim had to use a crutch. He was injured working the night shift on the tunnel construction.
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posted on
03/12/2010 8:02:03 AM PST
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: C19fan
“Isambard Kingdom Brunel”. Dickens himself would be hard pressed to come up with a better name for a character.
Except perhaps for “Lady Remington” and “Matthew Drudge.”
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posted on
03/12/2010 8:03:54 AM PST
by
Erasmus
(Give to the Antonio Janigro College Fund; a strong bow is a terrible thing to waste.)
To: C19fan
I don't have claustrophobia. But, I think I might develop it roaming the arcades 'neath the mighty Thames River.
But if the ye olde shoppes were tempting and engrossing enough, I might be motivated enough to take the plunge.
(....gurgle......)
Leni
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posted on
03/12/2010 8:05:55 AM PST
by
MinuteGal
(Bill O'Reilly: 9/8/09: "Communism is not a threat to us anymore"-10/20/09: "Obama is not a Marxist")
To: norraad
"..and designed w/pencil & paper. In some way, there was more common sense intelligence prevailing, before electronic intell., I mean."
Indeed. Try telling a group of college students that workable fax machines have been in use for over a hundred years, as I did a while back. Several of them all but called me a liar. "How did they digitize the signal?" one of them demanded. Similarly, it is hard for young people to conceive of things like the SR-71 or the first Moon rockets being designed without what we would consider substantial computing power. The accuracy of 19th century navigators, equipped only with mechanical chronometers, a sextant, and some astronomical tables, would seem like some kind of witchcraft to the present generation. This kind of ignorance could well explain the popularity of nutball theories about all modern technology being borrowed from UFOs or recovered from ancient Atlantis.
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posted on
03/12/2010 8:15:12 AM PST
by
atomic conspiracy
(Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
To: C19fan
I wonder how they avoided the bends.
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posted on
03/12/2010 8:18:18 AM PST
by
ichabod1
( I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet.)
To: tgusa
Well, the son took over day to day overseeing in the 1820s. He was almost killed in a tunnel flooding in 1828, I think, and then sent to recover at Clifton, where he witnessed the building of the Clifton suspension bridge. The article didn’t make clear why that was significant, but you’ve cleared it up for me. And I’ve cleared something up for you.
FASCINATING story. I love that era.
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posted on
03/12/2010 8:20:46 AM PST
by
ichabod1
( I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet.)
To: C19fan
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posted on
03/12/2010 8:23:14 AM PST
by
Doomonyou
(Let them eat Lead.)
To: ichabod1
I worked in Bristol for just under 6 months a few years back. Love the area. Fascinating how the sailing ships rode the tide up the river - Avon? - making Bristol a seaport.
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posted on
03/12/2010 8:27:17 AM PST
by
tgusa
(Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
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