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| 1850 |
| | | British engineer Robert Stephenson completes a box-girder railway bridge over the Menai Strait, between Anglesey and mainland Wales | |
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| 1852 |
| | | US entrepreneur Cornelius Vanderbilt conveys passengers across the American continent through Nicaragua by steamship and horse and carriage | |
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| 1854 |
| | | Ferdinand de Lesseps is granted the concession to construct a canal from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea | |
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| 1855 |
| | | The Panama Railroad company completes a line between the Atlantic and the Pacific, providing America's first transcontinental link | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Brunel dies just before the maiden voyage of his gigantic final project, the luxury liner The Great Eastern | |
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| 1859 |
| | | Joseph Bazalgette is given the task of providing London with a desperately needed new system of sewers | |
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| 1863 |
| | | The Metropolitan Railway, the world's first to go underground, opens in London using steam trains between Paddington and Farringdon Street | |
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London's Transport Museum
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| 1869 |
| | | The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads meet at Promontory Summit in Utah, completing the first transcontinental line | |
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| 1869 |
| | | Thousands of distinguished guests assemble at Port Said for the opening of the Suez Canal | |
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| 1875 |
| | | An agreement is signed between France and Britain to cooperate in the construction of a tunnel beneath the Channel | |
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