Lewis Waterman

Lewis Waterman
Born
Lewis Edson Waterman

(1836-11-20)20 November 1836
Decatur, Otsego County, New York, U.S.
Died1 May 1901(1901-05-01) (aged 64)
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Burial placeForest Hills Cemetery, 95 Forest Hills Ave. Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
OccupationInventor

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. Waterman was working as a pen salesman in New York for a new company founded in the spring of 1883 by a volatile inventor named Frank Holland. Holland abandoned his company after only six weeks; Waterman stepped in and took over, fitting the pens with a simplified feed of his own design.[1] It was for this "three fissure feed" which his first pen-related patent was granted in 1884.[2]

Waterman's fountain pen, patented February 12, 1884

Waterman was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2006.[3]

  1. ^ Rimakis, George; Kirchheimer, Daniel (March 30, 2017) [2014]. "Blotting Out the Truth" (PDF). 39.3. pp. 1–12. Retrieved January 10, 2018.
  2. ^ U.S. patent 293,545 Fountain Pen, February 12, 1884
  3. ^ "Hall of Fame Inventor Profile". National Inventors Hall of Fame. Retrieved August 27, 2018.