Samuel Warner (surveyor)
Samuel Warner may refer to: * Samuel Alfred Warner (c. 1793–1853), English inventor of claimed naval weapons, now considered a charlatan * Sam Warner (1887–1927), American film producer * Samuel L. Warner (1828–1893), U.S. Representative from Connecticut * Samuel A. Warner (1822–1897), American architect * Sam Bass Warner Sam Bass Warner (1889–1979) was the fourth Register of Copyrights in the United States Copyright Office. Born Sam Perkins Fiske in Chicago, Illinois, May 27, 1889, he was the first son of Asian art collector and female museum specialist G ...

Samuel Alfred Warner
Samuel Alfred Warner (c.1793–1853) was an English inventor of naval weapons, now considered a charlatan. Life Warner was born at Heathfield, East Sussex, son of William Warner who was a carpenter and reputed smuggler of Faversham. He knew a London chemist called Garrald, and was working with him in 1819 on an explosive. He took service with Pedro I of Brazil in Portugal, and on his return to England found some support from William IV for his claims to have secret weapons. The King appointed Admiral Richard Goodwin Keats, then Governor of the Royal Hospital Greenwich to investigate. Then admiral Sir Thomas Hardy was called in to assist. Warner died in obscure circumstances in the early days of December 1853, and was buried in Brompton cemetery, west London, on the 10th. He left a widow and seven children. Claimed inventions From 1830 to the date of his death Warner pressed claims for two inventions. These were the "invisible shell" (reconstructed as a type of high explosive und ...
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