Why did he not make the profits Parker Pen did?
Walter spent nearly 15 years fighting court battles to prove and secure his inventions, all because of fate. Walter was born like most of us, without wealth. He had to struggle to make ends meet and pay the rent. Had he been born wealthy he may have been the most famous American inventor ever! Unfortunately his humble beginnings in Martinsburg, New York, meant that every time he had a stroke of inventing genius he sold it to pay off debts or simply for food and a roof over his families head. This was a pattern that he repeated over and over with his inventions. He would spend all his efforts on inventing a new product, often not even bothering to patent it, then sell it to the highest bidder. No one knows how many things Walter actually invented but we do know it is many more than we have records of. He was well known for selling ideas as quickly as he could to get enough money to start his next project. He even sold all the rights to the safety pin. Inventive Genius Let me explain why
