William Warner
Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., Sanitary and Constructional Engineer
1854 Born son of Owen Peace Warner, engineer
Educated by T. Bardell, and trained to subjects kindred to engineering, taken many prizes in engineering from South Kensington and degrees to lecture upon engineering and scientific subjects.
Served apprenticeship to Manlove, Alliott, Fryer and Co., engineers, became Chief Engineer and Representative in their Sanitary Department; carried out plants for the Corporations of Warrington, Leeds, Bradford and the City of London.
Afterwards partnership in Goddard, Massey and Warner, engineers, Nottingham; became Chairman and Managing Director.
Invented and took out patents for the treatment of house refuse by fire in destructor furnaces, also invented and patented a process for dealing with clinkers, making a sanitary road paving, by grinding and mixing with asphalt into blocks for roadways, successfully used at Kensington, and gained Medal at the Exhibition of the Sanitary Association of Brighton, 1910.
Invented and patented a phthisical sputum disinfector for disinfecting by sterilizing the infected sputum from phthisis cases; also invented and patented and improved steam disinfector for hospitals, steamships and institutions.
Designed and built bridges over rivers and roads, also steel buildings and general machinery, including pumping engines and steam boilers.