Capillary action works through adhesion and cohesion. Liquid adheres to a solid surface and coheres to itself so it does not pool at the tip of the pen. The great Leonardo Da Vinci may have also invented a fountain pen. Da Vinci's journals show drawings of a reservoir pen that wrote using gravity and capillary action.

Know-it-alls think themselves a fountain of knowledge. In truth they are an oil spill of knowledge... Unwelcome and hard to get rid of.

PASSIONATE ABOUT PENS

I started school in 1953 in Australia. In first grade we used a slate to learn how to write. I can’t remember whether it was chalk that we wrote with . They constantly leaked, were prone to the ink clogging the pen, corroded, and were messy to refill. One had to load pens with an eyedropper. When were modern fountain pens invented? When the nib touched the paper, it pulled the liquid adhered to the grooves through cohesion onto the paper. By the mid-1600 reports began to circulate about Parisian craftsmen selling a "silver metal pen". Documents such as Samuel Pepys writings mention metal pens that "carry ink". Problems with early fountain pens

In fact, many grammar schools in European countries like Germany, Switzerland, and France require the use of fountain pens.

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I’m pleased that there is an increasing interest in fountain pens among young people. Much an all as we love our computers there is something very personal about a fountain pen. Barry Clifford April 6, 2023