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Marc Isambard Brunel

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Tunnel Boring Machine, Inventions

Built the first successful tunnelling shield in 1825 for the Thames Tunnel, a precursor to the modern boring machine; the engineer Henri Maus built the first true boring machine, the Mountain Slicer, in 1846.

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