“Section of the Present Heading Under the Sea at Dover Showing the Air Boring Machine of Colonels Beaumont and English in Isometrical Perspective”, an illustration for Arnold Lupton’s paper on “The Channel Tunnel”, Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society, vol. III (1883).
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…
Section of the Present Heading Under the Sea at Dover Showing the Air Boring Machine
Date
1883
From
Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society
