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Nathan A. Zepell (January 6, 1915 – February 28, 1982) was born in Riga, Latvia.He survived the Russian occupation of his Latvian homeland following World War I and the Great Depression, survived the Nazi Holocaust, and helped create a Jewish state in Israel before immigrating to America. [1]
William B. Purvis (12 August 1838 – 10 August 1914) [1] was an African-American inventor and businessman who received multiple patents in the late 19th-century. His inventions included improvements on paper bags, an updated fountain pen design, improvement to the hand stamp, and a close-conduit electric railway system.
Petrache Poenaru (Romanian pronunciation: [peˈtrake po.eˈnaru]; 10 January 1799 – 2 October 1875) was a Romanian inventor.. Poenaru, who had studied in Paris and Vienna and, later, completed his specialized studies in England, was a mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, teacher and organizer of the educational system, as well as a politician, agronomist, and zootechnologist ...
A fountain pen is a writing instrument that uses a metal nib to apply water-based ink, or special pigment ink—suitable for fountain pens—to paper.It is distinguished from earlier dip pens by using an internal reservoir to hold ink, eliminating the need to repeatedly dip the pen in an inkwell during use.
He received his first fountain pen patent in 1908, for a lever-filler, but did not put his design into production until 1912. The new business was incorporated at the end of January 1913 as the W.A. Sheaffer Pen Company; its success was rapid, and the jewelry store was soon sold. Within ten years, the company had joined the top rank of American ...
His first patent was issued for improvements to the fountain pen on April 18, 1922. [2] This was also the first invention that he successfully sold, to the Sheaffer Pen Company in the mid-1930s. In the 1920s, Friedman began his education in real estate and optometry. He would use both of these careers at different points in his life to ...
Ephraim Hertzano (1912–1987), Roumania / Israel – Rummikub; Lasse Hessel (1940–2019), Denmark – female condom; George de Hevesy (1885–1966), Hungary – radioactive tracer; Ronald Price Hickman (1932–2011), U.S. – designed the original Lotus Elan, the Lotus Elan +2 and the Lotus Europa, as well as the Black & Decker Workmate
platinum-pen.co.jp The Platinum Pen Company is a Japanese pen manufacturer based in Taitō , Tokyo known for the introduction in 1956 of the world’s first cartridge type fountain pen, and in 1967 for the first fountain pen with a platinum nib.