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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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]
In 1849 he invented the refillable fountain pen. [4] In 1863 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being Charles Piazzi Smyth. From 1869 to 1871 he served as president of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. [5]
The reader did show up, along with 500 other people. [2] Speidel quickly took up a collection of $1 from each of the visitors and proceeded on the first tour of the Seattle Underground . Since Memorial Day weekend 1965, the Underground Tour has given several tours a day every day except holidays and is one of the city's best known tourist ...