1876 newspaper ENGLISH CHANNEL TUNNEL Proposed asRailroad FRANCE - GREAT BRITAIN

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1876 Sceintific American Supplement, in
RARE ORIGINAL BLUE ADVERTISING WRAPS
, with a full-page, long and detailed article with large and quite beautiful engravings on the proposed construction of the CHANNEL TUNNEL, connecting France and England by RAILROAD underneath the English Channel!!
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inv # 7V-203
SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER SUPPLEMENT, the
Scientific American Supplement
(New York, NY) dated February 19, 1876 with a FANTASTIC piece of TRANSPORTATION and RAILROAD history!! An inside long, detailed article on the proposed construction of the English
Channel Tunnel
, complete with two large engravings, including one showing a cross section with how it would look with a TRAIN traveling through.
WONDERFUL RAILROADIANA!!
This Scientific American still boasts its
RARE BLUE ADVERTISING WRAPS
, as issued!!
1876 newspaper with inside VERY DISPLAYABLE, full-page article on the proposed ENGLISH CHANNEL TUNNEL!!
This piece BEGS to framed and included with any formidable RAILROAD collection!!
In 1802,
Albert Mathieu
, a French mining engineer, put forward a proposal to tunnel under the English Channel, with illumination from oil lamps, horse-drawn coaches, and an artificial island mid-Channel for changing horses.
In the 1830s,
Aimé Thomé de Gamond
, a Frenchman, performed the first geological and hydrographical surveys on the Channel, between Calais and Dover. Thomé de Gamond explored several schemes and, in 1856, he presented a proposal to
Napoleon III
for a mined railway tunnel from Cap
Gris-Nez
to
Eastwater Point
with a port/airshaft on the
Varne sandbank
at a cost of 170 million
francs
, or less than £7 million.
In 1865, a deputation led by
George Ward Hunt
proposed the idea of a tunnel to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer
of the day,
William Ewart Gladstone
.
Around 1866, William Low and
Sir John Hawkshaw
promoted ideas, but apart from preliminary geological studies none were implemented. An official Anglo-French protocol was established in 1876 for a cross-Channel railway tunnel. In 1881, the British railway entrepreneur
Sir Edward Watkin
and
Alexandre Lavalley
, a French
Suez Canal
contractor, were in the
Anglo-French Submarine Railway Company
that conducted exploratory work on both sides of the Channel. On the English side a 7 ft diameter Beaumont-English boring machine dug a 6,211 ft pilot tunnel from
Shakespeare Cliff
. On the French side, a similar machine dug 5,476 ft from
Sangatte
. The project was abandoned in May 1882, owing to British political and press campaigns asserting that a tunnel would compromise Britain's national defences.
These early works were encountered more than a century later during the
TML
project.
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