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Box Tunnel Workforce Expanded

Great Britain · Science / Engineering. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1841Date range
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Chronological records

1841

Isambard Kingdom Brunel1841

Box Hill · Science / Civil Engineering

Brunel pushes the main contractor to increase the Box Tunnel workforce from about twelve hundred to four thousand men.

Names involved

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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