Lewis Waterman - Wikipedia
...Lewis Edson Waterman (November 20, 1836 ? May 1, 1901) was an American inventor. He held multiple fountain pen patents and was the founder of the Waterman Pen Company. His entry into fountain pen manufacturing has only recently been properly researched....
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Lewis Waterman Biography ? Inventor of Fountain Pen
...On 12th February 1884, Waterman patented a fountain pen in his name and, at first, assembled pens himself. He sold them behind a cigar shop and gave a 5-year guarantee on them. In 1885, he partnered with Asa Shipman and founded The Ideal Pen Company, but that didn?t last....
http://www.historyofpencils.com/writing-instruments-inventors/lewis-waterman/
Lewis Waterman | EBSCO Research Starters
...Lewis Edson Waterman was an American inventor born on November 20, 1837, in Decatur, New York. He is best known for inventing the capillary feed fountain pen, a groundbreaking design that significantly improved the reliability of fountain pens....
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Who Invented the Fountain Pen? - ThoughtCo
...Lewis Waterman improved the fountain pen to prevent ink spills and patented it in 1884. William Purvis added features to make fountain pens more durable, reducing ink spills with a suction mechanism. Inventors created many ways to fill fountain pens, like the lever filler, which became very popular....
https://www.thoughtco.com/lewis-waterman-fountain-pen-4077862
Waterman: A History - Pure Pens
...A little look into the history of Waterman pens and how they have fought to remain one of the world's most known and loved brands. Lewis Edson Waterman from New York, is credited as the inventor of the fountain pen design we know and use today....
https://www.purepens.co.uk/blogs/news/waterman-a-history
NIHF Inductee and Fountain Pen Inventor Lewis Waterman
...Lewis Waterman invented a superior fountain pen that made inkwells and dip pens obsolete. Waterman was born in Decatur, New York. With only five years of schooling, he worked as a teacher, carpenter, and book salesman before becoming an insurance agent....
https://www.invent.org/inductees/lewis-edson-waterman
A History Of - Pens
...Waterman is recognised as the oldest manufacturer of fountain pens, still in exis-tence today, 130 years after Lewis Waterman received his first patent following the loss of that vital business contract....
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Lewis Waterman Inventions [Fountain Pen]
..."Starting inside 1850s there was clearly a steadily accelerating stream of fountain pen patents and pencils in production. It had been just after three key innovations had been set up, but that water feature pen became a widely popular composing instrument....
https://www.penparents.org/Waterman/lewis-waterman-inventions
Lewis Waterman Develops an Efficiently Functioning Fountain Pen
...The development of free-flowing ink was the invention of the American insurance salesman Lewis E. Waterman of New York City who employed the capillarity principle to allow air to induce a steady and even flow of ink in his fountain pen, receiving U.S. patent number 293545 in February 1884....
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Waterman: The world's most famous fountain pen brand
...Lewis Edson Waterman is an American inventor. He patented multiple fountain pens and was the founder of the Waterman Pen Company. Lewis Edson Waterman found a solution to the leaking problem of fountain pens with the three-piece feeding system he invented in 1883....
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