| The Parker story begins in 1889, when George S. Parker of Janesville, Wisconsin established the |
| company as an outgrowth of the small business he'd
had making reliable pens for his telegraphy students |
| (transcribing Morse being
one enterprise where you don't want to have to wrestle with an unreliable pen).
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| Capitalizing
on several patents, chief among them for the so-called "lucky curve" feed(which
curled |
| outward to touch the inside of the barrel so as to draw ink out of
the point when the pen was not in use, |
| minimizing the danger of
leaking), he quickly moved to a commanding position in the young fountain pen |
| industry. |
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| Parker also developed
his own self-filling system, the button filler, which became nearlyas
widely-copied |
| as Sheaffer's lever filler
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