“Sectional Diagrams of the Proposed Tubular Submarine Between France and England”, an illustration of the proposal by Hector Horeau, one of Thomé de Gamond’s early Tunnel-dreaming peers, for a tubular submarine railway.
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…
Sectional Diagrams of the Proposed Tubular Submarine Between France and England
Date
1851
From
Gleason's pictorial drawing-room companion
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