David Alan Stevenson
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David Alan Stevenson was a lighthouse engineer who built 26 lighthouses in and around Scotland.
Dioptic lens designed by David Alan Stevenson for the Inchkeith Lighthouse in 1889, now in the National Museum of Scotland
The Stevenson family grave, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh
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A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
The Lighthouse of Praia da Barra, on the west coast of Portugal
The Tower of Hercules lighthouse in northwest Spain
Original Winstanley lighthouse, Eddystone Rock, by Jaaziell Johnston, 1813.
John Smeaton's rebuilt version of the Eddystone Lighthouse, 1759. This represented a great step forward in lighthouse design.