Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Modern: "The Fountain," "Adventure Girl...
...Music Department who try to use music books under the present inadequate arrangement would convulse any vaudeville audience, but in Harvard University are only sad. No department should be so handicapped by such bad literary facilities, when in the Physics Department, a stone's throw distant, every drinking fountain is equipped with an individual electric refrigerator--doubtless aiding the progress of science...
...First Fountain Pens Sirs...
...disappointed to notice under Milestones in your Feb. 4 issue that TIME had copied the error of many newspapers in attributing the invention of the fountain pen to the late Paul E. Wirt...
...Wirt's overhead feed patent was granted in 1885 whereas the fissure feed patent of Lewis Edson Waterman is dated Feb. 12, 1884. There were many attempts to make a fountain pen prior to Mr. Waterman's invention. It is not known who first conceived the idea of a fountain pen or who first attempted to make one. A crude fountain pen was discovered in the ruins of Pompeii and other ink-containing instruments were known to be in the possession of King Louis XIV of France and Thomas Jefferson. In this country alone several hundred patents...