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Pen'O Pedia - A Pen Boutique Wiki
Pen'O Pedia is Pen Boutique wiki and an attempt to make a knowledge base of writing instruments for pen lovers all over the world. This is a wiki for those who like to gain, contribute and spread knowledge about their favorite writing instruments. Long time ago somebody asked in a gathering of scholars "How do you know if a person is educated from his looks ?" One said "Its the way he dresses" Another scholar said "Look at his watch,if he wears one he has value for time " and another scholar said "Look at his pocket, if he has a pen, he values writing and if he values writing, he values books and if he values book he is educated".
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Writing Instruments
An important step in human civilization was the ability to read and write.Just imagine a world if there was no communication between human beings.We would be nothing less than stone age . Writing is an essential means in all the fields and the invention of a tool to write was a major milestone in moving a step towards humanity.
Today we have thousands of writing instrument makers all over the world and only a few of them are known for their quality,durability and precision.Companies that provide high quality pens areMontBlanc, WaterMan,Cartier,Visconti ,Aurora,Lamy to name a few.
Fountain Pens
A fountain pen is a nib pen that, unlike its predecessor the dip pen, contains an internal reservoir of water-based liquid ink. From the reservoir, the ink is drawn through a feed to the nib and then to the paper via a combination of gravity and capillary action. As a result, the typical fountain pen requires little or no pressure to write.
Filling the reservoir with ink may be done manually, via the use of an eyedropper, pipette or syringe, or via an internal "filler" mechanism, which transfers ink from a bottle through the nib into the reservoir. These mechanisms are typically pistons or rubber sacs. Some pens employ removable reservoirs, in the form of pre-filled ink cartridges.
Lewis Waterman patented the first practical fountain pen in 1884. Writing instruments designed to carry their own supply of ink had existed in principle for over one hundred years before Waterman's patent. For example, the oldest known fountain pen that has survived today was designed by a Frenchmen named M. Bion and dated 1702. Peregrin Williamson, a Baltimore shoemaker, received the first American patent for a pen in 1809. John Scheffer received a British patent in 1819 for his half quill, half metal pen that he attempted to mass manufacture. John Jacob Parker patented the first self-filling fountain pen in 1831. However, early fountain pen models were plagued by ink spills and other failures that left them impractical and hard to sell.
Rollerball Pens
Rollerball pens are writing instruments which use ball point writing mechanisms with water-based liquid or gelled ink, as opposed to the oil-based viscous inks found in ballpoint pens. The characteristics of these less viscous inks, which tend to saturate more deeply and more widely into paper than other types of ink, give rollerball pens their distinctive writing qualities.
Ballpoint Pens
A ballpoint pen has an internal chamber filled with a viscous ink that is dispensed at the tip during use by the rolling action of a small metal sphere (0.7 mm to 1.2 mm in diameter) of brass, steel or tungsten carbide[1]. The ink dries almost immediately after contact with paper. Inexpensive, reliable and maintenance-free, the ballpoint has replaced the fountain pen as the most popular tool for everyday writing.
Mechanical Pencils
A mechanical pencil is an instrument for writing or drawing in which the solid marking core (usually graphite based and called pencil lead, but coloured pigments and other solid substances are also used) is not bonded to the outer casing, and is designed such that the core is to be extended as its point is worn away. Mechanical pencils are known by many alternative names, some of the most common alternatives being propelling pencil, automatic pencil, drafting pencil, technical pencil, clicky pencil, clutch pencil and leadholder.
Mechanical pencils are often designed and used to provide lines of constant thickness without requiring sharpening, making them well suited to applications like drafting and writing.
Top Pen Companies in the world
