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作者: gnome 时间: 2013-11-9 16:54
标题: 自来水笔的发明者Lewis Waterman
本帖最后由 gnome 于 2013-11-9 16:55 编辑

Lewis Waterman [attach]800289[/attach]
Residence - 265 Macon Street, Brooklyn, New York City
Born - Decatur, Otsego County, N.Y. - 1837
Death - 1901

Invented the capillary feed in fountain pens - now universally used - that allows for even ink flow. [attach]800290[/attach]

Though necessity may be the mother of invention, perhaps it is frustration that fuels the fire; or so it seemed for Lewis Waterman. In 1883, Lewis Waterman was an insurance broker in New York City, getting ready to sign one of his hottest contracts. In honor of the occasion, Lewis Waterman bought a new fountain pen that he considered far more stylish than a cumbersome dip pen and ink well. With the contract on the table and the pen in the client’s hand, the pen refused to write, and actually leaked onto the precious document. Horrified, Lewis Waterman raced back to his office for another contract, but a competing broker had closed the deal.

Determined to never again suffer such humiliation, Waterman began to make fountain pens in his brother’s workshop. Lewis Waterman used the capillarity principle which allowed air to induce a steady and even flow of ink. He christened his pen "the Regular," decorated it with wood accents, and obtained a patent for it in 1884. In his first year of operation, Waterman sold his hand-made pens out of the back of a cigar shop. He guaranteed the pens for five years and advertised in a trendy magazine, The Review of Review. The orders filtered in.

By 1899, Lewis Waterman opened a factory in Montreal and was offering a variety of designs. In 1901, upon Waterman’s death, his nephew, Frank D. Waterman took the business overseas and increased sales to 350,000 pens per year. The Treaty of Versailles was signed using a solid gold Waterman pen, a far cry from the day Lewis Waterman lost his important contract due to a leaky fountain pen.

作者: liyan3 时间: 2013-12-19 10:26
原来名字是这么来的

作者: xieydo 时间: 2013-12-19 13:44
According to this passage, Lewis Waterman was not exactly the inventor of fountain pen. Seems that he merely developed the stablity of them?

作者: gnome 时间: 2013-12-19 14:45

liyan3 发表于 2013-12-19 10:26
原来名字是这么来的

哈，我以前也觉得waterman就是水人，其实这是个姓。。。

作者: 毘沙門天 时间: 2013-12-19 23:57

gnome 发表于 2013-12-19 14:45
哈，我以前也觉得waterman就是水人，其实这是个姓。。。

總統大人忘記這牌子在咱們這叫做「華特曼」了嗎？{:soso_e113:}

作者: ilikehome 时间: 2013-12-20 00:25
这个是他自己编的故事。发明者也不是他。

作者: collado 时间: 2013-12-20 00:47
楼主你要说明啥

作者: gnome 时间: 2013-12-20 09:01

xieydo 发表于 2013-12-19 13:44
According to this passage, Lewis Waterman was not exactly the inventor of fountain pen. Seems that ...

Without a steady supply of ink, a pen cannot be called a fountain pen.

作者: gnome 时间: 2013-12-20 09:03

毘沙門天发表于 2013-12-19 23:57
總統大人忘記這牌子在咱們這叫做「華特曼」了嗎？

是啊，还是在咱们这里比较容易看懂，什么威迪文，完全不搭架啊

作者: gnome 时间: 2013-12-20 09:04

collado 发表于 2013-12-20 00:47
楼主你要说明啥

楼主要说明的都写出来了啊

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