About Alexander Mitchell

Alexander Mitchell was an Irish engineer who from 1802 onward was blind. He is known as the inventor of the screw-pile lighthouse.

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Irish inventor and engineer (1780-1868)

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Alexander Mitchell was an Irish engineer who from 1802 onward was blind. He is known as the inventor of the screw-pile lighthouse.

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Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image by Richard Hooke (c.1822-1877) via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).