Engineers
Marc Isambard Brunel
Civil Engineering
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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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