Industrial Design and The Development of Fountain Pen
Right now, you might have a ballpoint pen in your hand. Think about its ancestor, dip pen, a thin tube with a sharpened front end which draws up the ink with capillary action. Then, there came the fountain pen with inks in the cartridge, which relies on gravity to make the ink flow down to the tip of the pen. This progress freed people from ink wells that you can write wherever you go, and the written will not be erased easily. Fountain pens thrived at this stage. The nibs, t