Who Invented the Fountain Pen?
There were many unique Fountain Pens designed in the past period, which raised the conflict about who is the actual inventor of the Fountain Pen. But, some of the data can be considered which elaborates on the development of Fountain Pen.
- The fountain Pen was officially invented in the year 1809 and also it was first time patented in England by the Inventor Frederick Folsch. Frederick Folsch is considered the real inventor of the Fountain Pen.
- Petrache Poenaru, a Romanian Inventor achieved the Patent for a Fountain Pen on May 25, 1827. In Poenaru’s invention, the barrel was constructed of wood or another material, and the nib was made of quill, gold, or steel.
- The self-filling Mechanism of the Fountain Pen was also Patented by an American Inventor, John Jacob Parker in 1830. A rubber sac that held the ink in the Parker pen could be crushed to draw ink into the pen.
- Francis Wolle, an English inventor, received a patent for a fountain pen in 1844 that had a “reservoir pen” that stored ink in a coiled barrel. To get ink into the pen, you could twist the barrel.
- The feed Mechanism in Fountain Pen was a remarkable invention that was invented by an American Inventor, Lewis Waterman in the year 1884. This mechanism was used to ensure the consistent flow of ink on paper. Lewis Waterman integrated air pressure and gravity to apply this mechanism
- The first ballpoint pen, which employed a tiny ball bearing to transmit ink from the pen to the paper, was developed by Hungarian writer László Bró in 1901. The most used writing equipment gradually gave way to the ballpoint pen.
- Lewis Waterman is mostly given the credit for designing the contemporary fountain pen as we know it today, even though various other innovators contributed to the development of the fountain pen.
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