The oldest known fountain pen still around today was designed by m bion a frenchman in 1702 peregrin williamson a baltimore shoemaker received the first american patent for such a pen in 1809 john scheffer received a british patent in 1819 for a half quill half metal pen that he attempted to mass manufacture john jacob parker patented the first self filling fountain pen in 1831 most of these were plagued by ink spills such as the one waterman experienced and . Stanford libraries official online search tool for books media journals databases government documents and more. Fountain pens their history and art steinberg jonathan isbn 9780789306814 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon