A fountain pen is a writing instrument that uses a metal nib to apply water-based ink, or special pigment ink—suitable for fountain pens—to paper. It is...

dip pens, which were used for writing, have been replaced by ballpoint pens, rollerball pens, fountain pens and felt or ceramic tip pens. Ruling pens, which...

Fountain pen ink is a water-based ink intended for use with fountain pens. Fountain pen ink is almost exclusively dye-based because fountain pens operate...

A nib is the part of a quill, dip pen, fountain pen, ball point, or stylus which comes into contact with the writing surface in order to deposit ink....

nib with a central slit that acts as a capillary channel like those of fountain pen nibs, mounted in a handle or holder, often made of wood. Other materials...

and developed as a cleaner and more reliable alternative to dip pens and fountain pens, and it is now the world's most-used writing instrument; millions...

Gold Pen Company. He received his first fountain pen related patent in 1889. In 1894, Parker received a patent on his "Lucky Curve" fountain pen feed...

Africa, Germany and France. Most Pilot pens are made in Japan, France and the US. Namiki, Pilot's fountain pens with maki-e lacquering designs, are made...

the steel-nibbed dip pens had a limited ink reservoir and a tendency to drip inkblots on the page. The first modern fountain pens were developed in the...

The Waterman Pen Company is a major manufacturing company of luxury fountain pens and inks, based in Paris, France. The firm was established in 1884 in...

small ink passages in fountain pen feeds. Further, very acidic traditional iron gall inks intended for dip pens can corrode metal pen parts (a phenomenon...

The hot fountain pen, or red-hot fountain pen, is a small keyless single-reed woodwind instrument similar to a xaphoon, popularised in the 1920s and 30s...

production fountain pens are traditionally Montblancs, with some retail pens selling in excess of US $30,000, and some specialty and limited edition pens selling...

invention of the dip pen/metal-nibbed pen, the fountain pen, and, eventually, the ballpoint pen. As with the earlier reed pen (and later dip pen), a quill has...

series of writing instruments including fountain pens, rollerballs, ballpoints and pencils produced by the Waterman pen company. It is well-known because of...

from the 1960s and 1970s, Charlie Brown tries to write to a pen pal using a fountain pen, but after several literally "botched" attempts, Charlie switches...

While a student in Paris, Petrache Poenaru invented the world's first fountain pen, an invention for which the French Government issued a patent on 25 May...

begin production. Lamy offers a variety of writing products, including fountain pens. Manfred Lamy, son of Josef Lamy, managed the company until his retirement...

Flux Fountain Fudepen (or "brush pen") Gel Marker pen, also known as a felt-tip pen Highlighter Mean Streak Paint Permanent Quill Rastrum Reed pen Kalamos...

The Parker 51 is a fountain pen first introduced in 1941. Parker marketed it as "The World’s Most Wanted Pen", a slogan alluding to restrictions on production...

brush pen, is a cartridge-based writing implement used in East Asian calligraphy; it is, in essence, a cross between an ink brush and a fountain pen. The...

The reservoir pen, which may have been the first fountain pen, dates back to 953, when Ma'ād al-Mu'izz, the caliph of Egypt, demanded a pen that would not...

Duofold is a range of fountain pens produced by the Parker Pen Company. The first model was produced in 1921 and was a large pen – 5.5 inches long when...

March 1873) was a Scottish inventor known for inventing the refillable fountain pen and the pneumatic tyre. He was born on 29 June 1822 in Stonehaven in...

selling fountain pens. Dismayed by the unreliability of the pens, he experimented with ways to prevent ink leaks. In 1888 he founded the Parker Pen Company...

latter half of the 20th century Fountain pen – a nib pen which contains a reservoir of ink Fountain pen inks Gel pen – any pen using a water-based liquid or...

The Parker Vacumatic fountain pen was launched in 1932, and would come to out-sell the Parker Duofold, the then top seller. The pen was originally marketed...

fountain pens released by the Parker Pen Company in late 1897. The pen used the Lucky Curve ink supply system, designed to draw ink even when the pen...

served', which marked the end of the apprenticeship. In the 1950s, fountain pens with cylindrical points became available, but they were complex instruments...

inventor. He held multiple fountain pen patents and was the founder of the Waterman Pen Company. His entry into fountain pen manufacturing has only recently...