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Caricatures of parachutes and ballooning from Tissandier's Histoire des ballons et des aeronautes celebres 1783-1800 published 1887 #Archive30 #fashion https://t.co/I3eodbW6hN

How could we have missed yesterday's #Archive30 #drawing? We have just a few (thousands), take your pick. Detail of Blackfriars bridge; Hanois Lighthouse, Guernsey; Dundas Aqueduct, Kennet and Avon canal from George Rennie notebook; locomotive drawing from Mackenzie collection.

IK Brunel was born #onthisday 1806. Engineer for Great Western Railway, South Devon atmospheric railway SS Great Britain, Eastern and Western, Royal Albert Bridge and Clifton suspension bridge which was completed after his death.

Sir Benjamin Baker was born #onthisday 1840. #Forth Bridge, Aswan Dam and London Metropolitan Railway. He designed the boat which transported Cleopatra's needle.

John Rennie's Southwark Bridge opened #onthisday 1819. Originally called Queen Street bridge, the centre span was said to be the longest cast iron span ever built, at 240ft (73m). It was replaced in 1921 as it was too narrow to cope with the growing traffic.

The Bell Rock lighthouse was first lit #onthisday 1811. John Rennie was engineer but it was Robert Stevenson who designed the lighthouse and spent 4 years on site during construction. The design was based on Smeaton's Eddystone lighthouse.

The first underground railway in the world, the Metropolitan railway opened in London #onthisday 1863

Kennet and Avon canal completed by opening Caen Hill Locks, Devizes #onthisday 1810. Engineer John Rennie, these images come from Rennie's notebook owned by Smeatonian Society

Just looking at William Weston's watercolour views along I K Brunel's South Devon railway, 1847. Designed to be viewed along the line of the railway on the central map, they really are works of art. https://t.co/Q7w8IAzU5T

Happy #TunnelDayUK Here is a selection of images from our archive collections. Tram disappearing into Kingsway tunnel, London; Thames tunnel; Mersey Queensway tunnel and Teignmouth tunnel on the South Devon atmospheric railway