Ballpoint pens distribute fast-drying ink without the ink drying in the pen itself. It uses a thick, oil-based ink that is dispersed by a small ball in a socket at the head of the pen. The ...
It marks the origin of the pen knife. Before 1850, the process for vulcanization of rubber had not been discovered, and the only way to correct a writing mistake was to scratch the ink off the ...
It’s probably hard to imagine writing with a feather and a bottle of ink, but that’s what writing was limited to for hundreds of years. When fountain pens first came along, they were ...
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Everyone knows the frustrating feeling of searching for a pen only to find out it’s out of ink, has dried out – or has ceased to work for any number of other unknown reasons. Now, the issue ...