Hymen Lipman, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetHymen Lipman
American inventor
Date of Birth: 20-Mar-1817
Date of Death: 04-Nov-1893
Profession: inventor
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Hymen Lipman
- Hymen L.
- Lipman (March 20, 1817 – November 4, 1893) is credited with registering the first patent for a pencil with an attached eraser on March 30, 1858 (U.S.
- Patent 19,783). Hymen L.
- Lipman was born March 20, 1817, in Kingston, Jamaica, to English parents.
- He immigrated to the United States around 1829 with them, arriving in Philadelphia, PA, where he resided for the remainder of his life. In 1840, Lipman succeeded Samuel M.
- Stewart, then the leading stationer in Philadelphia.
- Three years later, he started the first envelope company in the U.S. In 1848, he was married to Mary A.
- Lehman, daughter of Peter Lehman, one of the founders of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.
- They had a son and two daughters. In 1862, Lipman sold his lead-pencil and eraser patent for $100,000 to Joseph Reckendorfer, who went to sue the pencil manufacturer Faber for infringement.
- In 1875, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled against Reckendorfer, declaring the patent invalid because his invention was actually a combination of two already known things with no new use.An incorrect picture of Hymen Lipman that surfaced on the internet in an April 3, 2012, YouTube post (Mr.
- Hymen Lipman - The Father of Modern Content Editing - This Day in SEO History - Vol 4 by Fathom) has been subsequently used by many others on the internet.
- The picture most often used is not of Hymen Lipman but rather Crawford W.
- Long of Georgia, credited with first using ether for surgical anesthesia on March 30, 1842.
- Another picture occasionally used as Lipman on the internet is an artist's rendition of a younger Edgar Allan Poe.
Read more at Wikipedia