The fountain pen is fitted with Visconti’s highly efficient power filler system, and the nib is an oversized 23-karat palladium Dreamtouch, available in extra fine, fine, medium, broad and stub ...

Joseph Gillott, an English inventor, developed a machine in 1831 to produce steel pen nibs which could be inserted ... by the end of each sentence. The fountain pen was invented in 1880 by an ...

The cartridge uses gravity to force ink down the reservoir. A fountain pen uses a nib in the place of a ball. The nib sits on top of a collector, which itself is connected to a feed. The feed take ...

Fountain pens have been in use for a very long time, with the first patent registered all the way back in 1827. With the invention of word processors, writing has changed a lot since then but one ...

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Such is the impact of the Meisterstück that, like a Birkin or a Kelly bag, it is known internationally by its one-word name.

All of them are pen nerds. "Leaky nibs and stained shirts are a thing of the past. The number and variety of pens and sellers have grown," Chawm Ganguly, a fountain pen buff who runs a popular ...

The cap is crowned with the Montblanc emblem in mother-of-pearl. The 18-karat rose gold handmade fountain pen nib is expertly engraved with the likeness of a rabbit in another tribute to this ...

The sonic pathfinder for Marc Bolan and David Bowie (but also Morrissey and Mary Hopkin) straddles glam and folk and prog and pop and is still twiddling knobs as he closes in on his eighties. In this ...

During the 12th century A.D., a king known to Europeans as Prester John supposedly ruled a land that had a river of gold and a fountain of youth. But the name linked most closely to the search for ...