Thames

Stream, lake, …

United Kingdom

A river running through southern England and London that flows into the North Sea.

The Thames is 346 kilometres long, making it Great Britain’s second longest river.

Traveljournal 1825

Calais–London, 7 June 1825
Further business in London, 13 July 1825
Visit to Brunel’s sawmill, 16 July 1825

Traveljournal 1825–1827

Visits on recommendations in London, 20 October 1825
The tunnel beneath the Thames, 21 October 1825
Brunel shows Fischer the leak in the Thames Tunnel, 20 September 1827
Tour of the Hammersmith Bridge and a visit to the theatre, 11 October 1827
London Steelworks and a so-called tobacco dispenser, 12 October 1827

Traveljournal 1845

Sheffield–London, 2 August 1845

Traveljournal 1846

Fischer inspects the atmospheric railway, 22 October 1846

Traveljournal 1851

Fischer’s highlights of the Exhibition, 24 June 1851
On the English export market, 27 June 1851
Further highlights of the Exhibition, 29 June 1851

Fischer, Johann Conrad: Tagebücher. Bearbeitet von Karl Schib. Schaffhausen 1951.

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Cite as: Thames. In: Travel Reports of a Pioneer: Digital Edition of the Travel Journals of Johann Conrad Fischer 1794–1851. Published by Franziska Eggimann. Edited by Franziska Eggimann, Nicolau Lutz, Valerija Rukavina und Christopher Zoller-Blundell. Schlatt 2023, Version 1.2, https://johannconradfischer.com/en/places/gfa-places-1641, viewed on 10 May 2025.

[[title]] — The Thames from Westminster to Greenwich (woodcut by Frederick James Smyth, 1845)