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Smeaton, detail of an engraving by W. Bromley, 1798, after a portrait by J. Brown
John Smeaton
British engineer
John Rennie
Scottish civil engineer
John Hopkinson
British physicist
Stevenson, Robert: lighthouse on the Isle of May
Robert Stevenson
British engineer