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The First Thames Tunnel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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Tunnel — what imaginative pictures are conjured up in our minds on hearing this word! To most of us come visions of trains swooping through impassable mountains. Few of us would think of a tunnel as a foot-path or carriage-way under a river, but the first successful tunnel was just such a project under the Thames River.

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Business History Review , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , April 1931 , pp. 8 - 12
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1931