| |  | Robert Stevenson (8 June 1772-12 July 1850) was a Scottish civil engineer and famed designer and builder of lighthouses. Stevenson was born in... |  | Richard Henry Brunton (26 December 1841 - 24 April 1901) FRGS from Scotland was the so-called "Father of Japanese lighthouses". |  | Thomas Stevenson (1818-1887) was a pioneering lighthouse designer, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland, as well as the... |  | John Donahoo (sometimes spelled Donahoe) (1786-1858) was a lighthouse builder active in Maryland for much of the first half of the nineteenth... |  | Thomas Smith was a Scottish businessman and early lighthouse engineer. Born in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, his father drowned in Dundee harbour when he... |  | Alan Stevenson (born 1807, Edinburgh; died 1865) was a lighthouse engineer who was Engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses. A member of the... |  | Alexander Mitchell was an Irish engineer who from 1802 was blind. He is known as the inventor of the screw-pile lighthouse. He was a native of... |  | Henry Winstanley (1644-November 27, 1703) was an English engineer who constructed the first Eddystone lighthouse. |  | Orlando Metcalfe Poe (March 7, 1832 - October 2, 1895) was an United States Army officer and engineer. He was responsible for much of the early... |  | John Smeaton, <small>FRS</small>, (June 8, 1724 - October 28, 1792) was a civil engineer - often regarded as the "father of civil engineering" -... | |
