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Lewis Waterman, a Common card

Lewis Edson Waterman was an American inventor.

From the Wikipedia article

Rarity
Common
Domain
Science
ATK
49
DEF
32
Power
81
Wikipedia reads a year
8,800

Power 81 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.

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Lewis Waterman quiz: 3 questions

Three questions on the Lewis Waterman card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.

  1. Find the missing word

    His entry into fountain pen ______ has only recently been properly researched.

    Answer

    manufacturing. His entry into fountain pen manufacturing has only recently been properly researched. From the Lewis Waterman article on Wikipedia.

  2. In which decade?

    Waterman was working as a pen salesman in New York for a new company founded in the spring of ____ by a volatile inventor named Frank Holland.

    Answer

    1880s. Waterman was working as a pen salesman in New York for a new company founded in the spring of 1883 by a volatile inventor named Frank Holland. From the Lewis Waterman article on Wikipedia.

  3. Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?

    Answer

    Katharina Huber. Katharina Huber 61 · Akkalkuwa Assembly constituency 57 · Viscous coupling unit 54 · Lewis Waterman 49 ATK in WikiCards.

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The facts on the card

The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.

Why it is Common

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Lewis Waterman article was read about 8,800 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 49 and blocks with 32: each hit it takes is cut by 13 %.

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Credits

Text : Wikipedia, Lewis Waterman (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Original photographer unknown, digitized by Google Books in freely available book. Cropped, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

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