A) Tunnels are very common throughout the world. B) You don't "drive" on a ferry. C) No one but you has even said "Great Britain" on this whole FML. No, it would not be like that. A tunnel that goes underneath a channel of water is actually very unique and uncommon, and to a person living on the other side of the world of such an engineering feat you would expect them to have little knowledge of such a thing. Don't compare a tunnel that goes under a mass of water to a simple bridge. TL;DR stop being a **** because we aren't taught about European engineering. I found it very interesting but I had little knowledge of its existence.

Just to add to that, Robert Fulton, an American engineer, invented the ferry. Enjoy your bitch slap, mister ignorant.

Freeze - what you said in #168 is wrong.

Damn WikiAnswers. I mean, um... He made the steamboat and that led to the first steam powered ferry. Here's a link: http://www.gothamgazette.com/commentary/92.fleischer.shtml I guess technically he didn't invent the ferry. ASDFGSEDJRHSGHFGSAFHSEH.

Ah, I see where you got your info from, but that article itself is horribly misleading. For a start, Fulton didn't "invent the steamboat" as the article says. They had already existed in Europe for decades before that, and he didn't even build the first one in North America - that was John Fitch. Fulton is credited with operating the first commercially successful steamboat in the United States. That article also can be read as implying that the first ferry service between Manhattan and Brooklyn was the very first ferry service, which of course it wasn't, just the first in that location. Unfortunately, you see this sort of US-centric stuff all too often. I've read a lot of things where Americans have been told they invented cars, trains, television and a whole bunch of other things. Most recently, Obama gave a speech where he said America invented the automobile, which is quite simply not true. While Americans did invent a bunch of cool stuff, and pioneered commercialisation and adaptations for a lot of inventions, a lot of the biggies were done in other countries.