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John Percy Wilson 1866 - 1934

John Percy Wilson was born in 1866 in Richmond, City of Yarra County, VIC Australia to Edward John Wilson and Harriet Louisa (Duvall) Wilson, and had a sister Emily Sarah Wilson. He was in a relationship with Mary Louisa (Nancarrow) Wilson, and had a child Percy William John Wilson. John Wilson died at age 67 years old on August 11, 1934 in St Kilda, Port Phillip City County, and was buried at Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery Charman Rd, in Cheltenham, City of Bayside County.

John Percy Wilson

1866

Richmond, City of Yarra County, VIC, 3121, Australia

August 11, 1934

St Kilda, Port Phillip City County, VIC, 3182, Australia

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1866

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Richmond, City of Yarra County, VIC 3121, Australia

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1934

Death

August 11, 1934

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St Kilda, Port Phillip City County, VIC 3182, Australia
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Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery Charman Rd, in Cheltenham, City of Bayside County, VIC 3192, Australia
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The Age, Melbourne. 18th August 1934. WILSON. - On the 11th August, at St. Kilda, John Percy, dearly beloved husband of Mary Louisa Wilson, and loving father of Percy, brother of Frank ( Sydney ), Jessie ( Brisbane), father-in-law of Beatrice, and grandpa of little Elva, youngest son of the late Dr. E. J. Wilson, of Richmond. - Peacefully sleeping.

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John Percy Wilson lived 4 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 68.

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In 1866, in the year that John Percy Wilson was born, Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in Germany. During his lifetime he held 355 patents, of which dynamite was the most famous. He also established the Nobel Prizes in his will.

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In 1879, at the age of just 13 years old, John was alive when on October 22nd, Thomas Edison tested the first practical electric light bulb. Lasting 13½ hours before burning out, it used a "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected to platina contact wires". He applied for a patent on November 4th, receiving the patent in January 1880.

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