George Safford Parker
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George Safford Parker was an American inventor and industrialist.
George Safford Parker
Fountain pen
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A fountain pen is a writing instrument that uses a metal nib to apply water-based ink to paper.
George Safford Parker
…from Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa. He worked as a telegraphy instructor in Janesville, Wisconsin, and had a sideline repairing and selling fountain pens. Dismayed by the unreliability of the pens, he experimented with ways to prevent ink leaks. In 1888, he founded the Parker Pen Company, and the next…
Close-up of traditional fountain pen with an iridium-tipped stainless steel nib
Various contemporary and vintage fountain pens (left to right): Pilot Justus 95 Pelikan Souverän M1000 Montblanc Meisterstück 149 Pilot Heritage 912 Parker Duofold Centennial Sheaffer Snorkel Admiral Lamy Dialog 3 Welty Parker Sonnet Conway Stewart 55 Waterman Thorobred Mabie Todd Swan 3220
Waterman 42 Safety Pen, with variation in materials (both red and black hard vulcanized rubbers or ebonite) and retracting nibs
"Waterman's ideal fountain pen" 1908 ad