“Beaumont Machine for Digging Tunnels in Soft Rock”, an illustration from Louis Figuier, Grands Tunnels et Railways Metropolitains volume of Les Nouvelles Conquêtes de la Science (Paris, 1867).
Featured on PDR in the essay Liberal Visions and Boring Machines: The Early History of the Channel Tunnel
More than a century before the Eurostar and LeShuttle, a group of engineers and statesmen dreamed (and fretted) about connecting Britain to France with an underwater tunnel. Peter Keeling drills into the history of this submarine link, and finds a still-relevant story about the cosmopolitan hopes and isolationist panic surrounding liberal internationalism.
Also appearing in the essay…
Beaumont Machine for Digging Tunnels in Soft Rock
Date
1867
From
Grands Tunnels et Railways Metropolitains , Les Nouvelles Conquêtes de la Science
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