Lewis Waterman, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Lewis Waterman

American inventor

Date of Birth: 18-Nov-1837

Date of Death: 01-May-1901

Profession: businessperson, engineer, inventor, patent inventor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Lewis Edson Waterman (November 18, 1837 – May 1, 1901), born in Decatur, New York, held multiple fountain pen patents and was the founder of the Waterman pen company. Lewis Edson Waterman's 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.
It was for this "three fissure feed" which his first pen-related patent was granted in 1884.Waterman is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, MA.
Following his death in Brooklyn in 1901, his nephew Frank D.
Waterman took the business overseas and increased sales to 350,000 pens per year. Waterman was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2006.