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| 1832 |
| | | The paddle steamer Alburkah becomes the first ocean-going iron ship, completing the journey from England to the Niger | |
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| 1833 |
| | | 27-year-old Isambard Kingdom Brunel wins his first major appointment, as chief engineer to the Great Western railway | |
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| 1833 |
| | | 30-year-old Robert Stephenson is appointed chief engineer to the London and Birmingham railway | |
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| 1833 |
| | | The first long-distance US railway, in South Carolina, carries its first passengers | |
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| 1836 |
| | | Work begins on the suspension bridge over the river Avon, at Clifton, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel | |
|  | Clifton Suspension Bridge
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| 1837 |
| | | The first trains run between London and Birmingham on the railway designed by Robert Stephenson | |
|  | Primrose Hill Tunnel, c.1837
Guildhall Library
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| 1838 |
| | | An Irish packet steamer, the Sirius, becomes the first steamship to cross the Atlantic, completing the journey to New York in 19 days | |
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| 1843 |
| | | The Brunel engineers, father and son, finish an 18-year project tunnelling under the Thames between Wapping and Rotherhithe | |
|  | View of the Thames tunnel
London's Transport Museum
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| 1843 |
| | | Isambard Kingdom Brunel launches the Great Britain, the first iron steamship designed for the transatlantic passenger trade | |
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| 1845 |
| | | Brunel's suspension bridge serves Hungerford market | |
|  | Hungerford Bridge, by Shepherd, 1854
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