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Essay on Pens
Essay on Pens
do so. However, things were not always that way. Before, pens
were either leaky or you had to constantly dip them into the
would pave the way for the modern ballpoint pen. The fountain
pen was the first pen to hold it’s own ink and was revolutionary
people wrote.
Originally the reservoir had to be manually filled with an eye
dropper, but this was messy and required the inkwell. Later this
was replaced with a pump system, but this was still very messy.
click into place and would be punctured by the feed, starting the
ink flow.
way the average American wrote. Once the pen nibs started
whose jobs involved lot of writing were the most effective, but
once the fountain pen became available, most people replaced