| We are all driven by different motives to do the | | | | ones that were in existence then. He came up with |
| things we do, but have you ever thought what | | | | such good pens that he gave them a five-year |
| drove the pen inventor to design the pen? The | | | | warranty. He worked with the capillarity principle in |
| ancient pen was made from goose feathers and | | | | mind, since he had had an encounter with the |
| banked upon the fact that the feather stick has a | | | | fountain and therefore knew how they worked. He |
| high capillarity rate and is therefore able to store ink | | | | however based his research on the classical ones and |
| for a while. The ink was dispensed on a piece of | | | | after overcoming a lot of challenges, he finally |
| paper through the sharpened and split end of the | | | | obtained a patent for his Waterman pens trademark |
| feather. As the years progressed, people came up | | | | in 1884 |
| with better ideas and that is how we got to have a | | | | With the great inventions of Lewis, not even death |
| variety of pens to choose from. | | | | could stop the production of the Waterman pens. |
| Examples of pens in the market today are ballpoint, | | | | Lewis passed on years after this great achievement, |
| felt, fountain, metal nibs, quills and many others. | | | | but surprisingly, the company evolved even faster |
| There is one particular brand that is of special interest | | | | and in a few years it became a world-wide |
| in this chapter and this is the Waterman pen. Their | | | | corporation. However, due to lack of new ideas, they |
| history dates back to 1883, when they were | | | | slowly started to lose grip of the market and they |
| founded by Lewis Edson Waterman in New York. | | | | are yet to recover. |
| They were introduced as a solution to the leaking | | | | |