Editing Lighthouse (section)

===Famous lighthouse builders===
[[John Smeaton]] is noteworthy for having designed the third and most famous [[Eddystone Lighthouse]], but some builders are well known for their work in building multiple lighthouses. The Stevenson family ([[Robert Stevenson (civil engineer)|Robert]], [[Alan Stevenson|Alan]], [[David Stevenson (engineer)|David]], [[Thomas Stevenson|Thomas]], [[David Alan Stevenson|David Alan]], and [[Charles Alexander Stevenson|Charles]]) made lighthouse building a three-generation profession in Scotland. 
[[Richard Henry Brunton]] designed and built 26 [[Template:Lighthouses of Japan|Japanese lighthouses]] in [[Meiji (era)|Meiji Era]] Japan, which became known as Brunton's "children".<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/imotp.1901.18577 |title=Obituary - Richard Henry Brunton | work=Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers |volume=145 |issue=1901 |year=1901 |pages=340–341 |doi=10.1680/imotp.1901.18577 |access-date=20 April 2018}}</ref> Blind Irishman [[Alexander Mitchell (engineer)|Alexander Mitchell]] invented and built a number of screw-pile lighthouses. Englishman [[James Nicholas Douglass|James Douglass]] was knighted for his work on the fourth Eddystone Lighthouse.<ref>{{cite DNBSupp|title=Douglass, James Nicholas |first=Thomas Hudson|last=Beare}}</ref>

[[United States Army Corps of Engineers]] Lieutenant [[George Meade]] built numerous lighthouses along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts before gaining wider fame as the winning general at the [[Battle of Gettysburg]].  Colonel [[Orlando M. Poe]], engineer to [[General William Tecumseh Sherman]] in the siege of Atlanta, designed and built some of the most exotic lighthouses in the most difficult locations on the U.S. [[Great Lakes]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/maritime/keep/architect.htm|title=Maritime Heritage Program - National Park Service|access-date=6 April 2017}}</ref>

French merchant navy officer [[Marius Michel Pasha]] built almost a hundred lighthouses along the coasts of the [[Ottoman Empire]] in a period of twenty years after the [[Crimean War]] (1853–1856).<ref name="hnet">{{cite web |url=http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=11049 |publisher=Humanities and Social Sciences Net Online |title=Review of Thobie, Jacques, L'administration generale des phares de l'Empire ottoman et la societe Collas et Michel, 1860–1960. H-Mediterranean, H-Net Reviews. January, 2006 | author=Guigueno, Vincent |date=January 2006 |access-date=20 September 2010}}</ref>