Sunday, January 18, 2009

Nice Fountain Pen


People have been writing for thousand of years, painting on walls, scraping rocks and finally using ink and a quill to write things down on paper. The pen is one of the most useful objects ever invented, it's the corner stone of history, as it began with the invention of writing. The idea behind the fountain pen is pretty simple; to hold the ink inside the pen instead of dipping the quill in ink. The first mention of the fountain pen goes back to an arabic text from 969 AD.One of the first fountain pens ever produced was the french Bion model dating back to 1702. The problem related to the invention of a good pen is highly technical because the reservoir tended to leak. The first mass produced pen was created by John Scheffer in 1819. Scheffer managed to resolve the question of the reservoir as he made one out of sheep gut that wouldn't leak as much. The rest is history with numerous inventions; from John Parker's piston refillable pen in 1832 to the Lewis Waterman pen of 1884 that was recognized as the first safe pen. A safe pen in those days meant that your hands, and your shirt, would remain clean

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