Genre:

Letter

Subjects:

Engineering

    The writer observes: 'Among the numerous projects started by Joint Stock Companies, none appears so likely to transmit to posterity the daring ingenuity of the present generation as the Thames Tunnel; a work in which the boldest conceptions and the most novel ideas are united.' The article describes the tunnel, and the current state of work.

See also:

ML1/3/84/1, ML1/3/87/1