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Aimé Thomé de Gamond
French mining engineer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aimé Thomé de Gamond (November 1807 – 1876) was a French engineer and entrepreneur who believed in the feasibility of constructing a Channel Tunnel under the Straits of Dover. However, despite his enthusiasm for such a venture, he died ridiculed and penniless because the project was not in conjunction with the political atmosphere of the period. He is now called the "father of the tunnel between France and England".
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