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John J. Horner, civil engineer
1862 Employed by an English gentleman, residing in Italy, to erect an iron girder bridge across the river Adige, at Verona. Because of the timing of the construction he used screw piling supplied by George Wells, a specialist in this area[1].
1867 Presented a paper to the Society of Engineers on screw piling
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