BIC, founded in France but now a worldwide giant, produces the world’s best-selling pen, which has barely changed since its launch.

Frank Dan Waterman, who made the Waterman fountain pen a household word and a worldwide favorite at the turn of the century, loved his adopted city of Eustis. To provide a hotel for the hundreds of… ...

Another fountain pen innovation from the period was found in U.S. Patent No. 293545, simply titled Fountain Pen.Issued to Lewis E. Waterman of Brooklyn, NY, the patent claims an ink-duct for a ...

1943: Brothers László and Georg Bíró, Hungarian refugees living in Argentina, patent the ballpoint pen. A half-century-old idea is coming to commercial fruition. Lewis Waterman’s invention ...