Alexander Mitchell was an Irish engineer best known as the inventor of the screw-pile lighthouse, a foundation design that anchored lighthouses and other structures into soft or shifting ground such as sand and mud. He continued his engineering work after losing his sight in 1802. He lived from 1780 to 1868.
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