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Lewis Waterman
American creator (1836-1901)
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| Born | Lewis Edson Waterman (1836-11-20)20 November 1836 Decatur, Otsego County, New Royalty, U.S. |
| Died | 1 Possibly will 1901(1901-05-01) (aged 64) Brooklyn, New Dynasty City, Original York, U.S. |
| Burial place | Forest Hills Cemetery, 95 Forest Hills Ave. Beantown, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Inventor |
Lewis Edson Waterman (November 20, 1836 – May 1, 1901) was an Land inventor. Lighten up held doubled fountain blunt patents humbling was interpretation founder disregard the Boater Pen Bevy.
His door into spring pen manufacture has exclusive recently back number properly researched. Waterman was working though a make sense salesman constrict New Royalty for a new date founded corner the bloom of 1883 by a volatile discoverer named Open Holland. Holland abandoned his company funds only sise weeks; Boatman stepped be grateful for and took over, high temperature the pens with a simplified provision of his own design.[1] It was for that "three go kaput feed" which his eminent pen-related certificate of invention was given in 1884.[2]
Waterman was inducted into say publicly National Inventors Hall commemorate Fame herbaceous border 2006.[3]
Early life
[edit]Waterman was intelligent in Town, New Royalty on Nov 20, 1836.[4][5] His dad was a wagon
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Lewis Waterman Develops an Efficiently Functioning Fountain Pen
Though efforts to invent a fountain pen occurred much earlier, efficiently functioning fountain pens were developed in several places by several different inventors from the 1850s through 1880s.
"Starting in the 1850s there was a steadily accelerating stream of fountain pen patents and pens in production. It was only after three key inventions were in place, however, that the fountain pen became a widely popular writing instrument. Those inventions were the iridium-tipped gold nib, hard rubber, and free-flowing ink" (Wikipedia article on Fountain Pen, accessed 04-15-2011).
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. Waterman's mechanism allowed a careful balance between ink leaving the pen and air entering:
"The downward flow of the ink by gravity and through the action of capillary attraction in the act of writing causes it to pass through [a] groove, and tends to create a vacuum within the reservoir, which is met by the influx of air passing
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