at Rotherhithe are now the Brunel Museum. The Thames Tunnel proved the concept of tunnels beneath rivers and led to many other examples. Brunel was knighted by Queen Victoria and in France received the

build the Hamburg-Bergedorf railway and in 1840 he began a scheme to drain the marshes around the rivers Elbe and Hammerbrook and make land for a new industrial suburb. When the great fire of Hamburg destroyed [...] of the Labouring Population of Great Britain . At the time, Hamburg extracted water from the same river that took its sewage. Lindley designed an 11-kilometre system of sewer tunnels and a waterworks –

stimulated his involvement in the project for a new, hydraulically-operated swing bridge over the River Tyne, opened in 1876, replacing the ancient Tyne Bridge that had been an obstacle to shipping. His

became a partner in the Chorlton Twist Co, which in 1799 acquired the mills at New Lanark, on the River Clyde in Scotland, that had been built by Richard Arkwright in partnership with David Dale (1739-1806)

London & Birmingham Railway, opened in 1838. At Newcastle, he designed the high-level bridge over the River Tyne, which carried road and rail decks one above the other. He tackled the challenging railway route [...] North America and India. Among his notable structures were tubular bridges over the Saint Lawrence River in Canada and the Nile in Egypt. In Britain, he worked with his father to influence the ‘battle of

Périer built at Chaillot. He installed his first steam engine on a specially built canal from the River Seine at Chaillot in 1781. It pumped water to four interconnected stone-walled reservoirs at Passy [...] al status to the whole enterprise. Périer installed further engines and water intakes across the river at Gros-Caillou and upstream at Gare de l'Hôpital and the Arsenal. An original model of the double-acting

was born in Pantschowa (now Penčevo) in Austria-Hungary, on the border with Serbia and across the River Danube from Belgrade. His family were German; his grandfather came to Pantschowa after 1800 and e

stations on other rivers across Spain with the aim of providing electricity for key industrial regions without the need for a national grid. They supplied Madrid from a station in the river basin of the Tajo [...] was approached by Eduardo Aznar y Tutor, who owned rights to exploit water in the catchment of the river Ebro, which flows east from the Basque country to Catalunya. The result was the creation of the first

the ironworks conducted by Quaker evangelists, descriptions of journeys on passenger boats on the River Severn, comments on food riots in 1756, and several revealing comments on building of new furnaces

Thomas Telford and on the building of Birkenhead, a new town with docks on the opposite side of the River Mersey from Liverpool. Brassey met George Stephenson who was seeking stone for the Sankey Viaduct [...] built 867 km of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, including the tubular bridge over the St Lawrence River at Montreal, and constructed a railway to carry supplies to the allied front line during the Crimean

Commerce. In 1921 Hugo Henkel established a new plant to manufacture Persil at Genthin, east of the River Elbe between Berlin and Magdeburg on the Elbe-Havel Canal. Both father and son employed imaginative

site, which probably began to work in 1774, was powered by the Bonsall Brook, a tributary of the River Derwent. The mill was extended, and in 1780 Arkwright bought land for another mill complex powered

up in rural mid-Wales, where his father was a shoemaker and tollkeeper for the New Bridge over the River Vyrnwy. While he was a boy the aqueduct for the Montgomeryshire Canal was built next to the toll house

completed a new five-storey factory next to Crotchett’s mill in 1721, which used water-power from the river Derwent. Their business became highly successful, producing far more silk threat than the English

Cromford factory at Ratingen, 40 kilometres away from Elberfeld. It used an old water-power site on the river Anger. It was five storeys high and designed on the Arkwright model by Rutger Flügel. It went into

in north-eastern France in 1795. At around the age of 6 he moved with his family to Mainz on the River Rhine where his father was inspector of forestry and bought an estate. He studied at the École Po [...] in the Rhineland and Bavarian Palatinates, where he worked on construction projects for roads and rivers. From 1826 to 1832 he was at Zweibrücken as a principal engineer of roads. However, with the political

four great rivers of England, the ‘Grand Cross’. This project was led by landowners and industrialists and financed by shareholders. It included a canal from the Mersey estuary to the river Trent, the [...] waterways that became the arteries of Britain’s industrial regions and linked its principal navigable rivers – the Severn, the Trent, the Mersey and the Thames. Brindley was from a farming family in Derbyshire [...] completed in 1761, which carried coal to Manchester. He designed a stone aqueduct 180-m long over the River Irwell that was a wonder of the age. This success led to other canal schemes. He consulted on projects

canal to London to be rebuilt and launched. In 1822 it crossed the English Channel and went up the River Seine to Paris. Among the ship’s innovations were its steam engines, which were of the oscillating

engine, was the earliest site of the SSWC. He sat on many Royal Commissions including projects for the River Thames sewage system, the Thames Embankment and the Suez Canal. He was called in to advise Napoleon

notable structures was the Royal Albert Bridge by which the Cornwall Railway was carried across the River Tamar west of Plymouth. Brunel demonstrated to the world the potential of large iron steamships. He