. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ,*v. V *^yfc~ fey. /)r^4- U^n^- workmanship, in the most exalted sense of the ; 141 The spirit of Maudslay, one of England's greatest craftsmen, was yet fresh in the shops that he had lately vacated and where work was being carried on by his sons and by Joshua Field (i 787?—1863), who had worked with Maudslay for some 27 years. Marc Isambard Brunei (1769-1849), the re- markable father of the equally remarkable Isambard Kingdom Brunei, was in 1832 en- gaged—almost singlehandedly—in pushing his pioneering tunnel under the Thames. Com
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ,*v. V *^yfc~ fey. /)r^4- U^n^- workmanship, in the most exalted sense of the ; 141 The spirit of Maudslay, one of England's greatest craftsmen, was yet fresh in the shops that he had lately vacated and where work was being carried on by his sons and by Joshua Field (i 787?—1863), who had worked with Maudslay for some 27 years. Marc Isambard Brunei (1769-1849), the re- markable father of the equally remarkable Isambard Kingdom Brunei, was in 1832 en- gaged—almost singlehandedly—in pushing his pioneering tunnel under the Thames. Com- menced in 1825, the work had been stopped in 1828 because of lack of funds, and it was not until 1835, nearly three years after Sellers's visit, that the task was renewed, to be completed in 1843. Brunei's tunnel, now well into its second century of use, carries London Transport electric trains under the ' W HEN DISCUSSING THE ADVISABILITY of going to England to investigate the entire subject and learn if possible the advantages, if any, over the American machines, Philadelphia was stricken for the first time by the Asiatic cholera. Having no fear of the disease, I became active in cholera hospital arrangements, and in attending at them. The result was an acute attack, and I was so utterly prostrated by it that for recuperation a sea voyage was decided on, and the trip to England was hastened. It being before the i*1 James Nasmyth Engineer, an Autobiography, Samuel Smiles, edit. (London, 1883), p. 147. 1,1 See Richard Beamish, Memoirs 0/ Sir Marc Isambard Brunei (London, 1862). There is a bibliography in L. T. C. Rolt, Isambard Kingdom Brunei (London: Longmans, Green, 1957) £&..-' -i a • S*> «J5»^-c^ Figure 49.—Sellers's sketch of the packet ship Hihernia, of the Black Ball Line, in which he sailed to England. All studding sails (stuns'ls) were set for a pleasant breeze from dead astern. In brilliant moonlight, Sellers climbed out onto the jib
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