Fountain Pen and Ink Manufacturers - Fountain Pen, Cartier Sa, Lamy, Montblanc, Faber-Castell, Pilot, Conway Stewart, Parker Pen Company (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Fountain pen, Cartier SA, Lamy, Montblanc, Faber-Castell, Pilot, Conway Stewart, Parker Pen Company, A. T. Cross Company, Alfred Dunhill, Societe Bic, Carter's Ink Company, Quink, Waterman pens, Pelikan, ST Dupont, Birmingham pen trade, Rotring, Sheaffer, Macniven and Cameron, Ballograf, Zebra, Namiki, Meisterstuck, Samuel D. Wonders, Montegrappa, Richard B. Carter, OMAS, Tombow, Caran d'Ache, Visconti, Yard-O-Led, Aurora, Delta, The Shanghai Hero Pen Company, Stipula, John W. Carter, Wality, Onoto pens. Excerpt: A fountain pen is a nib pen that, unlike its predecessor the dip pen, contains an internal reservoir of water-based liquid ink. From the reservoir, the ink is drawn through a feed to the nib and then to the paper via a combination of gravity and capillary action. As a result, the typical fountain pen requires little or no pressure to write. Filling the reservoir with ink may be done manually (via the use of an eyedropper or syringe), or via an internal "filler" mechanism which creates suction to transfer ink directly through the nib into the reservoir. Some pens employ removable reservoirs, in the form of pre-filled ink cartridges. These Parker Duofolds from the 1920s used the Lucky Curve feed system and self-filled using a "button filler." They were quite long; nearly 7 inches long when posted. The earliest historical record of a reservoir pen dates to the 10th century. In 953, Ma' d al-Mu'izz, the caliph of the Maghreb, demanded a pen that would not stain his hands or clothes, and was provided with a pen that held ink in a reservoir and delivered it to the nib, which could be held upside-down without leaking, as recorded in Kitab al-Majalis wa 'l-musayardt, by Qadi al-Nu'man al-Tamimi (d. 974). No details of the construction or mechanism of operation of this pen are known, and no examples have survived. O...