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Fountain Pens

Does anyone remember the fountain pen?

You may have seen them; horrible things with rubber bladders that sucked up a supply of black stuff from an inkwell on the school desk, and then squirted all over your clothes. More than one mother cursed Lewis Waterman, who patented the infernal devices back in 1884. His was the [...]