Happy Birthday, U.S. Patent #293545!

Thursday, 12 February 2009 - 2:31am by Steven M Scotten

Today is the 125th anniversary of the patent granted to Lewis Edson Waterman for his capillary feed for fountain pens, which turned fountain pens from a gimmicky novelty used by only a few into the true replacement for the steel pen and the quill.

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/308.html

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Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 03:53

Your pen obsession.   Keep using 'em. You're doing great work.

Submitted by mcdba on Mon, 04/05/2010 - 00:10

hi all.

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