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| Picture No | 10694050 |
| Date | 1907 |
| Description | William Low |
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William Low (1814 - 1886), surveyor and civil engineer. Low formed the Channel Tunnel Company and was the first to make realistic plans for the construction of a tunnel. The first excavations were made in 1870, but progress was halted by the Franco-Prussian War.
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| Source | Photograph in The Sphere, 16 March 1907 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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