Person:Ernest Sparks (3)

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Ernest Sparks
b.1874 St. Pancras, Middlesex, England
d.Abt 1953 Edgware, Middlesex, England
Parents and Siblings
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m. 12 Dec 1869
  1. Herbert Blande Sparks1870 - 1916
  2. Arthur Edward SparksAbt 1872 -
  3. Ernest Sparks1874 - Abt 1953
  4. Adelaide Alice Sparks1879 -
  5. Vincent Leeuw Sparks1888 -
Spouse and Children
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m. 24 Dec 1898
  1. Alice Minnie SPARKS1901 - 1984
  2. Ethel May Sparks1902 - 1910
  3. Muriel Hilda SPARKS1907 - 1987
  4. Grace Miriam SPARKS1910 - 2000
  5. Edna Violet Sparks1916 - 1991
  6. Eileen SPARKS1918 - 1997
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Facts and Events
Name Ernest Sparks
Gender Male
Birth? 1874 St. Pancras, Middlesex, England
Occupation? From abt 1890 Part-time Inventor
Census? 1891 Clerk, Advertising Agency
Marriage 24 Dec 1898 Hammersmith, Middlesex, EnglandSt Stephen's,
to Minne Eliza Mary CLEARY
Census? 1901 Mechanical Engineer
Occupation? Part Time Inventor / Clerk in Advertising Agency (census 1891), Mechanical Engineer in (census 1901)
Death? Abt 1953 Edgware, Middlesex, England
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Ernest engineered a number of inventions, including the 'magic' self-erasing writing slate and an automatic cigarette dispenser. He also invented an automatic light controller for street lighting in the early 1900s, but was unable to persuade Hastings District Council to trial it. He could not afford to keep up all his patents and in 1907 the National Automatic Light Controller (Sparks Patent) Company Ltd was dissolved (recorded in the Files of Dissolved Companies, Public Record Office, Kew).

Born in Pancras

Ernest engineered a number of inventions, including the 'magic' self-erasing writing slate and an automatic cigarette dispenser. He also invented an automatic light controller for street lighting in the early 1900s, but was unable to persuade Hastings District Council to trial it. He could not afford to keep up all his patents and in 1907 the National Automatic Light Controller (Sparks Patent) Company Ltd was dissolved (recorded in the Files of Dissolved Companies, Public Record Office, Kew).

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