[Posted on L&P and on FPN on July 20, 2006.]
While I was preparing the two volumes of my patent book, I collected a group of favorite patents and designs and goofy images. I wrote some articles about these patents and posted them on various pen message boards in a series I titled “Some Of My Favorite Pen Patents”, so if you want to see a few examples of the type of research that the book makes possible, take a look at the posts in the following 43 links, and the rest of the posts in this blog. I have rearranged and renumbered the threads in this series so that they are now roughly in chronological order.
1, The X-Patents
2, The Eyedropper Era
3, The First Typewriter
4, The First Pregnant Pen
5, A Writing Device For The Blind
6, The First Crescent Filler
7, The Hand Shaped Pencil Sharpener
8, The First Ball Pointed Pen
9, The Telegraphic Pen
10, A Combined Inkstand, Pistol Case and Burglar Alarm
11, The Tower of Babel
12, The Ink Transfusion Fountain Pen
13, The Over and The Under Feeds
14, The First Gravity Fillers
15, The Integral Eyedropper
16, The Pocket Inkstand, and The Traveling Inkwell
17, The Pen Cleaner
18, The Duryea and the Beaver and Eagle Clips
19, The Teddy Bear Pencil Tip
20, The Fairchild Nib Sign
21, The Writing Machine
22, The Printer’s Dingbats
23, The Ink Vending Machine
24, The Pen Branding Machine
25, The Original Pencil Geek
26, The Ma and Pa Carter Inx
27, The Tempoint Nib Chart
28, Making A Wahl-Eversharp Nib
29, The Waterman’s Lever-Filler Demonstrator
30, The Inkograph Demonstrator
31, The Namiki Lever Filler and Urushi Patents
32, The Gravity Filler
33, The Waterman’s Piston and Vacuum Fillers
34, The Vacumatic Precursors
35, “Eliminating The Human Hand”
36, The Modular Parker Fountain Pens
37, The Name “Stylograph”
38, The So-Called “Fountain Pen Ballpoints”
39, One Unproduced Parker “51” Design
40, The Vanishing Point and Parker “51” Snorkels
41, The Parker “61” Snorkel
42, The First Snorkel Filler, Not A Sheaffer
43, A Parting Shot
George Kovalenko.
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