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Fountain Pen - You Write Your Own History
October 7th, 2007 by admin in Blogroll

There is a very well established maxim ‘pen is mightier than the sword’. A person’s inner personality blooms with the touch of fantastic and flashing writing. It someone walks down the memory lane shuffling through the pages of history, he will come into contact with myriad luminaries and loyal sons who adorn the society with the elegant finery of pyrotechnic of words. They enriched the culture and literature. Fountain pen is therefore bearer of glorious past and present. With fountain pens versatile authors germinated the seeds of revolution and liberty in the mind of common people. So fountain pen has become history itself. In other words, it scrolls out its majestic and glamorous past history through the write ups of those erudite personalities.

The history of fountain pen started back to 10th century, when fountain pen was used in the form of soft feather. It contained two quills- one small size quill was used as the reservoir of ink which lay inside the large quill. Daniel Schwenter, a German national invented the first workable fountain pen. Then during the mid 1800, the fountain pen after modification came into the market with a new design. This new fountain pen was designed with the gold nib, hard and much durable rubber and smooth flowing ink just like a natural cascade. A student in Paris Romanian Petrache Poenaru modified the fountain pen which the French government patented in 1827 in the month of May,

Later in the year of 1870, Duncan MacKinnon of New York and Alonzo T. Cross of Providence, RI manufactured stylo-graphic pens that were designed with a hollow cylinder like nib which was further attached with an ink valve. In January 1890, American William B. Purvis got the patent of first ink feeding fountain tube. Later in 1907, Waterman created a pen with a drawn back point that manipulated the ink reservoir like a bottle. The new high graded qualitative model invented by Waterman is much popular breaking time barrier.

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