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Print of the “Diving-Bell Used in the Construction of the Thames Tunnel”

Object no. LDBRU:2024.7b
Size 131 x 179
Date 1893
Acquired

Unknown; found unaccessioned in December 2023 in Museum storage.

Condition
Location LFC

Hand-coloured print of the operation of diving bell used to assess damage to the Thames Tunnel following flooding in the late 1820s, taken from Edward Walford, Old and New London: A Narrative of its History, its People, and its Places (London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1893).

For a contemporary view of the operation of the diving bell, drawn by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, see LDBRU:2017.1.

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