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George Safford Parker (November 1, 1863 – July 19, 1937) was an American inventor and industrialist. Biography. Early life. Parker was born in Shullsburg, Wisconsin in November 1863, and graduated from Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa.
Aged 25, George Safford Parker applies for his first pen patent and begins the Parker story with the driving philosophy: 'It will always be possible to make a better pen.' 1894 Parker invents the pioneering anti-leak system, the 'Lucky Curve', Parker's second patent and major breakthrough.
The Parker Pen Company is an American manufacturer of luxury writing pens, founded in 1888 by George Safford Parker in Janesville, Wisconsin, United States. In 2011 the Parker factory at Newhaven, East Sussex, England, was closed, and its production transferred to Nantes, France.
George Safford Parker and Parker Pen Company. George Safford Parker was born in Shullsburg, Wisconsin, USA, on November 1, 1863, and died in Chicago, Illinois, USA, on July 19, 1937. He was an industrialist and inventor. He graduated from Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa, USA.
George Safford Parker. The founder of the Parker Pen Company, a contemporary of Lewis Waterman experi-enced the same frustrations. He was a teleg-raphy teacher and like Waterman entrance into the pen market came from the desire to find a pen that was fit for its purpose.
George Safford Parker in 1892. Preamble. The first time young George Safford Parker laid eyes on Janesville was in March of 1888, drawn there to enroll as a student in the Valentine Brothers School of Telegraphy.
Apr 12, 2016 · Making a better pen was what the Parker Pen Company's founder, George Safford Parker, set out to do when he couldn't find one that wrote well enough and didn't leak ink everywhere. Mr Parker believed that if he "made a better pen, people would buy it."
