Conventional dip pens typically had to be reloaded with ink by the end of each sentence. The fountain pen was invented in 1880 by an insurance salesman named Louis Edson Waterman. Before the ...

Yes, such was the importance of the fountain pen in the previous century ... this everyday objét d’art represented permanence — its ink could not be erased — and professionalism.

The fountain pen features a stainless-steel nib and the piston-driven ink filling method originated in the 1930s. The German company worked with designers such as Wilhelm Wagenfeld on its pens and ...

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...