Link tags: tunnel

Liberal Visions and Boring Machines: The Early History of the Channel Tunnel – The Public Domain Review

How the spirit of Brexit scuppered the dream of a Victorian chunnel.

In 1851, a telegraph wire linked London and Paris directly. Might it be possible for a railway to follow? Many engineers believed it was: they proposed a tunnel, joining the roads and railways of Britain to those of mainland Europe.

ngrok - secure introspectable tunnels to localhost

This looks like a useful tool, not just for testing locally-hosted sites (say, at a device lab), but also for making locally-hosted sites run on HTTPS so you can test service workers.

localtunnel: instantly show localhost to the rest of the world

An alternative to showoff.io for sharing your locally-hosted sites.

The Telectroscope – 22 May-15 June 2008. London and New York.

I love the idea of this bit of real-world steampunk alternative history. From May 22nd to June 15th you will be able to use the telectroscope to look into a tunnel through the earth from London to New York.