http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/01/the-epic-struggle-to-tunnel-under-the-thames/ History with all the interesting bits left in Wed, 22 May 2013 17:36:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/01/the-epic-struggle-to-tunnel-under-the-thames/#comment-1359 David Vernon Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:21:07 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/?p=4002#comment-1359 Another fascinating tale, Mike! Brunel seems to have been a wonderful engineer but a very poor businessman - or simply his ideas were just so ahead of their time that he was hard pressed to estimate how long anything would take. This problem plagued his son too, with the building of the Great Eastern. Another fascinating tale, Mike! Brunel seems to have been a wonderful engineer but a very poor businessman – or simply his ideas were just so ahead of their time that he was hard pressed to estimate how long anything would take. This problem plagued his son too, with the building of the Great Eastern.

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/01/the-epic-struggle-to-tunnel-under-the-thames/#comment-1358 Rose Haas Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:06:48 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/?p=4002#comment-1358 Excellent article! I found it very interesting and informative. Thanks! Excellent article! I found it very interesting and informative. Thanks!

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