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The Classical Fountain Pen For HandwritingThe fountain pen is one of the oldest and most classical types of handwriting instruments that are still being used nowadays. Although handwriting is hardly as popular as it used to be back in the days when people could not type everything they needed, people are still thought handwriting in school and many still practice it. Unlike typing, handwriting is able to carry bits of one’s own personality and this is what makes it special. Here one can learn more about the type of pen that has been used for a very long time in handwriting and the handwriting instrument that is still being used nowadays as a tool to handwrite.
The fountain pen is a type of nib pen which contains an internal reservoir for the water-based ink that is used with it. It represents a development from its predecessor, the dip pen and the oldest type of pen, in the fact that it contains a reservoir which the dip pen did not have and had to be dipped into the ink every time that was needed, hence the name. In the case of the fountain pen, the ink is being drawn from the reservoir to the nib through a feed. There are different ways in which people can refill the reservoir. Some models of fountain pens can be refilled through a syringe or an eyedropper.
It is estimated that the first reservoir fountain pen dates from the 10th century and it is thought that it belonged to the caliph of Maghreb, A’ad al’ Mu’izz. There are no examples of this pen and there are also no details regarding the ways in which it was manufactured, although there are several legends around it. The modern traces of the fountain pen have been however found in a 17th century magazine in which a German inventor described a pen made from two quills.
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