{"id":673,"date":"2013-11-08T16:04:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T22:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=673"},"modified":"2017-03-26T19:43:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T00:43:24","slug":"like-a-bridge-under-troubled-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"Like a Bridge Under Troubled Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/engineering\/structural\/build-underwater-tunnel.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/7a\/TBM.jpg\/476px-TBM.jpg\" alt=\"A partially disassembled tunnel boring machine (TBM)\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A partially disassembled tunnel boring machine (TBM). Photo by Mike.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Between the years of 1825 and 1843 , through floods and financial failures, Marc Isambard Brunel and his son dug a tunnel under London&#8217;s Thames River. Our ambitions have grown since then, but the technology we use still bears a striking resemblance to Brunel&#8217;s shipworm-inspired device.<\/p>\n<p>In this article, I look at some of the worlds most breathtaking underwater tunnels and delve into how they were constructed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/engineering\/structural\/build-underwater-tunnel.htm\" target=\"_blank\">How do you build an underwater tunnel?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between the years of 1825 and 1843 , through floods and financial failures, Marc Isambard Brunel and his son dug a tunnel under London&#8217;s Thames River. Our ambitions have grown since then, but the technology we use still bears a striking resemblance to Brunel&#8217;s shipworm-inspired device. In this article, I look at some of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=673\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Like a Bridge Under Troubled Waters<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,50,4,31,73,74,13,43],"tags":[691,462,696,697,694,5,701,693,695,692,703,700,702,690,699,698,689],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-geoscience","category-history","category-how-to","category-materials","category-physics","category-technology","category-travel","tag-bridge","tag-chunnel","tag-conduit","tag-cut-and-cover","tag-immersion-tunnel","tag-inventors","tag-marc-isambard-brunel","tag-marmaray-tunnel","tag-oresund-tunnel","tag-seikan-tunnel","tag-sunken-tunnel","tag-tbm","tag-trans-atlantic-tunnel","tag-tunnel","tag-tunnel-boring-machine","tag-tunneling-shield","tag-underwater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}