George Safford Parker was a teacher of telegraphy at the school in Janesville, Wisconsin. At that time, typewriters were not yet in use, and telegraphers used pen or pencils to copy message. Parker‘s students were suing the early version of the fountain pen and found them unreliable.
He gave up his teaching career and in 1888he began experimenting with the new pen. He established his own company and the following year he registered his first patent.
Lucky pen and ink-feed system was patented in 1894 and this was the real breakthrough for Parker and the pen was an immediate success.
In 1902, Parker pen was first sold to stationer in Denmark after seeing a Parker advertisement in the Saturday Evening Post magazine.
During the First World War, Parker introduced the Trench Pen for use on the Western Front. A tablet of pigment was inserted in a blind cap at the end of the pen.
In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower used his Parker pen to officially put an end to World War II when he signed the peace treaty in Paris.
When Japan surrender to the Allies latter the same year, the treaty was signed with General Douglas MacArthur old Parker pen onboard the warship USS Missouri.
History of Parker pen
