Fountain pens are meant to last a long time, another reason some prefer them over disposable ballpoints. Fountain pens can be customized with different colors of ink and types of nibs. But there ...

The fountain pen was invented in 1880 by an insurance salesman named Louis Edson Waterman. Before the invention of the typewriter, most legal documents had to be handwritten and took a long time ...

I nk color When fountain pens were still in vogue, users generally had to choose between blue or black ink. When the ballpoint pen became popular, manufacturers started offering other shades ...

Once we narrowed our list down to the very best, most highly recommended pens, we divided them up among the Strategist’s team of writers and editors (there are 11 of us) to be rated according to ...

It's a nib.) The pen was the Pilot Varsity fountain pen, and you can get a pack of six for less than $15. She probably had 20 of them in a pencilholder at her desk.

Eye droppers gave way about 1912 when W.A. Sheaffer invented the lever system, in which the nib was placed in the ink bottle, a lever on the side lifted and ink drawn into the pen.

Before the ballpoint pen came into fashion, the fountain pen was used to draw ink from an internal reservoir so that a person could write or draw on a piece of paper or another surface. In the ...

Fountain pens seem hopelessly geeky to the uninitiated. Why bother with an expensive, finicky pen when most of us do all of our writing on keyboards and touchscreens anyway? And what's wrong with ...

Montblanc's become very well known for its many popular limited edition and limited series fountain pens over the last couple of decades, and one of the most interesting to a serious fountain pen ...