subaqueous tunnel
engineering
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- In tunnels and underground excavations: Subaqueous tunnels
Tunneling under rivers was considered impossible until the protective shield was developed in England by Marc Brunel, a French émigré engineer. The first use of the shield, by Brunel and his son Isambard, was in 1825 on the Wapping-Rotherhithe Tunnel through clay under…
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