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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.
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.
In 1888 he founded the Parker Pen Company and the next year he received his first fountain pen patent. By 1908, his factory on Main Street in Janesville was reportedly the largest pen manufacturing facility in the world. Parker eventually became one of the world's premier pen brands, and one of the first brands with a global presence.
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 ...
Walter Hunt (July 29, 1796 – June 8, 1859) was an American mechanical engineer.Through the course of his work he became known for being a prolific inventor.He first became involved with mechanical innovations in a linseed producing community in New York state that had flax mills.
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 ...
The Waterman Pen Company is a major manufacturing company of luxury fountain pens and inks, based in Paris, France. The firm was established in 1884 in New York City by Lewis Waterman , [ 1 ] being one of the few remaining first-generation fountain pen companies, as "Waterman S.A."
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.