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Eddystone Lighthouse: Sir James N. Douglass's version

Smeaton's Tower, a red and white striped lighthouse, stands on a grassy area overlooking the water at Plymouth Hoe in Plymouth, England.

Portland Head Light

Bald Head Island

Barnegat Lighthouse, Long Beach, New Jersey.

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Key People

Smeaton, detail of an engraving by W. Bromley, 1798, after a portrait by J. Brown

John Smeaton

British engineer

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John Rennie

Scottish civil engineer

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John Hopkinson

British physicist

Stevenson, Robert: lighthouse on the Isle of May

Robert Stevenson

British engineer