In 1884, Lewis Waterman was responsible for the invention of what literary aid?
Lewis Waterman Lewis Waterman 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
Lewis Waterman completely unfounded. Waterman was born in Decatur, New York. His father was a wagon maker who died when Lewis was three. The boy grew up on his stepfather's farm, attending the district school until he was fifteen, then attending the seminary at Charlottesville, New York for some three months. Still fifteen, he began teaching, supplementing his income by carpentry work. Waterman chiefly taught Pitman shorthand ("stenography"), which took him to Illinois and Virginia. Waterman began selling insurance in 1862, starting in Michigan but relocating to Boston in 1864. In the late 1860s Waterman and his wife Sara Ann Roberts were