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As you all well known with one of the general thing that is pen. Pens are of different
kinds like fountain pen, ball pen.
Fountain pens
In 1884 Lewis Waterman, a New York insurance agent, patented the first practical
fountain pen containing its own ink reservoir. Waterman invented a mechanism that fed
ink to the pen point by capillary action, allowing ink to flow evenly while writing. By the
1920s the fountain pen was the chief writing instrument in the West and remained so until
the introduction of the ballpoint pen after World War II. Fountain pens ink is not so thick
in fountain pens there is facility to fill the ink simple by pressing the rubber weasel.
Ball pen
Hungarian brothers’ legislator and georgic biro invent a pen with a rolling ball tip.
The ballpoint pen’s ease of use will quickly make it the writing instrument of choice,
leading to the demise of the fountain pen.
As early as the 19th century, attempts had been made to manufacture a pen with a rolling
ball tip, but not until 1938 did the Hungarian brothers Georg and Ladislao Biro invent a
practical ballpoint pen. Its success was based upon a viscous, oil-based ink. Early
ballpoint pens did not write well; they tended to skip, and the slow-drying oil-based ink
smudged easily. But the ballpoint pen had several advantages over the fountain pen: The
ink was waterproof and almost unerasable; the pen could write on many kinds of surfaces
and could be held in almost any position for writing, and the pressure required to feed the
ink was ideal for making carbon copies. Ink formulas were improved for smoother flow
and faster drying, and soon the ballpoint replaced the fountain pen as the universal
writing tool
Every body is known that pen is useless without ink means; riffle that used in pen is
important past of pen. That plays important role in writing on paper. A riffle consists of
following things:-