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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