Feathers of the crow and raven were used for fine work, such as mapmaking and drawing ... had to be reloaded with ink by the end of each sentence. The fountain pen was invented in 1880 by an ...

Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your ... a feather and a bottle of ink, but that’s what writing was limited to for hundreds of years. When fountain pens first came ...

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...