By 1906 the energy and promise of the first few years of the "modern" new century had already had a stimulating effect on inventors and craftsmen. Ingenuity, imagination, and a sense of exploration and discovery helped the fountain pen make its technical and commercial breakthrough as a writing instrument. The first practical fountain pen had been patented as early as 1884, and the revolutionary lever filler was only two years away from introduction. In Hamburg, stationer Claus-Johannes Voss, together with banker Alfred Nehemias, and the Berlin engineer August Eberstein, recognised the "signs of the time", and ... read more >>
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