NEW YORK and London will be joined together via a trans-Atlantic tunnel from today.
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Using plans and maps first made by his great grandfather in Victorian times, inventor Paul St George has managed to complete the oceanic drilling project and is now ready for the public to inspect his work.
As a bonus, the tunnel has been fitted with a Telectroscope, a smart piece of kit that uses clever optical science to enable people to see what’s going on at the other end.
“Several people throughout the 1890s claimed to have invented the Telectroscope, but nobody ever built one,” says St George. “I can now prove that my great grandfather was the only person with a workable plan – and finally I am in a position to turn that plan into a reality.”
St George has worked closely with a team of artists from Artichoke, who were the people behind 2006’s The Sultan’s Elephant, claimed as the biggest piece of free theatre ever mounted in the UK.
The London end of the tunnel is on the South Bank, while in New York, the tunnel comes out at the Brooklyn side of Brooklyn Bridge.
