The normal convention of the world is to bestow the credit of the designing of the fountain pen entirely upon the creative genius of Lewis Waterman. The truth is quiet the contrary as Waterman did not enter the picture of Fountain Pen industry until 1884 when the pen was as old as a good two centuries. In this case perhaps you would realize that it is a grievous untruth to state that Waterman is the inventor of the fountain pen. The society also has a convention of calling waterman the father of the pen industry. This perhaps would be to a better regard, as there is reason to believe that Waterman spent a lot of time in the direction of the betterment and the improvement of the fountain pen.

The practical fountain pen was patented L.W. Lewis in 1884 and after that period there has not been much looking back and the world has reached   a stage of   development in the present times where the world is abundant in the designs of ink pens that come with use and throw refills. The fountain pen was as leaky as a newborn infant until Waterman put his heads to the purpose of bringing about a change in the picture. Waterman maintained the basic design and added the air hole to the fountain pen nib that curbed the problems of leakage to a great degree and as has been already mentioned there has been no looking back and things have come to a fine stand point now.

Waterman was also the mastermind behind the addition of the 3 grooves in the basic structure of the fountain pen   and made it a more manageable thing. The fountain pen’s perspective changed from the basic slogan of ‘leaky fountain’ to that of a pen, which produced ink with the same beauty that is associated with the basic structure and function of a fancy fountain. The tag line changed and this has don e a lot of good to the ink pen. Whatever the version of the more popular modern pens they are all the offshoots of the Waterman aided fountain pen of 1889.