Multiple choice general knowledge

Which insurance salesman invented the fountain pen in 1884?

  1. Lewis Edson Waterman

  2. Sir William Grove

  3. Charles Kettering

  4. George Fountain
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Explanation

Lewis Edson Waterman was indeed an insurance salesman who invented the practical fountain pen in 1884. After losing a valuable insurance contract when his pen leaked on the document, he developed a reliable fountain pen with a superior feed system to prevent ink leakage.

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