Practical fountain pens with internal ink cartridges had been in use for decades, but Laszlo Biro devised a new version that used a ball bearing instead of a nib—in other words, the modern ...

It uses a thick, oil-based ink that is dispersed by a small ball in a socket at the head of the pen. The cartridge uses gravity to force ink down the reservoir. A fountain pen uses a nib in the ...

Plus there were many materials fountain pens couldn't write on at all. The idea of replacing the nib with a little metal ball rolling in a socket to collect and deliver ink isn't a new one.

The fine nib makes it easy to fit a lot of writing ... Smooth ink and doesn’t bleed through to the previous page.” The Better Ball Point Pen by Pilot provides the clean results of oil-based ...

When fountain pens first came along ... One problem was that while the ball worked better than a nib, it had to be an absolutely perfect fit, or ink would either get stuck or leak out everywhere.

The ink used in a fountain pen, the ballpoint’s predecessor, is thinner to facilitate better flow through the nib—but put that ... they refined both the ink and the ball-tip design to create ...

Independently, inventors around the world began developing the ball-and-socket technology ... Unlike the traditional nib pens, which leaked in flight, Martin believed the ballpoint pens would ...

Fountain pens were a stylish statement but messy and impractical. Their replacement was a stroke of design genius perfectly in time for the era of mass production. On 29 October 1945, the New York ...

Different nibs were used for different purposes ... a status symbol irrespective of the writing prowess of the owner. Ball pens appeared in India in the mid-1950s. Initially, they were imported ...

This fountain pen is made in resin for a smooth touch, equipped with a quill shaped clips, and finished a 14-k gold nib. Luxury in a writing utensil. German pen company Kaweco has been making ...