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Retrospective of the Bic Cristal pen
Open Culture's retrospective of one of the world's most successful consumer products opens with a reminder that you don't need to be shown such things because they're everywhere. Bich (the foreign ...
In the early 1880s, Lewis Waterman, a New York City insurance salesman, developed the first reliable fountain pen. According to a popular—though likely embellished—story, a leaky pen ruined an ...
“Whenever I faced an intractable problem I used my secret weapon: my Waterman fountain pen and signed the problem out of the way,” he said in an interview. In 2015, having been awarded the Nobel Peace ...
A fountain pen, to me, was something people used for actual calligraphy. I knew fountain pens were part of the whole Classic Man thing that Esquire is built on, but I tapped out at buying a nice suit.