Know Some Interesting Facts about Fountain Pens

Fountain pens were used almost 5000 years ago. They are nib pens that hold the ink in it so that it can be used further for writing purpose. Fountain pens have a reservoir in it where the ink is stored as the nib draws the ink with the help of a feed using capillary action and gravity. Some pens have the option to fill ink through a Pasteur pipette like an eye dropper or with the help of a syringe. There is another way of filling ink in the fountain pen. It has an internal filling mechanism that creates a suction similar to that of piston mechanism and draws the ink directly from the ink pot. In the advanced version of fountain pens, pre filled cartridges are given and you can simple change the cartridge when the ink is over.

Fountain pens are said to improve your handwriting if you start writing with them from the very beginning. However there are many people who uses fountain pens throughout their life. Also there are much more to these pens which will simply amaze you. So just go through the list of interesting facts about fountain pens below :

1. Fountain pens were first used by Ancient Egyptians almost 3000BC ago.
2. Fountain pens are steady learners and can learn you writing style over time.
3. Aurora Diamante is the most expensive fountain pen as it is made of solid platinum and two precious stones studded in it.
4. Nanofountain probe is the smallest fountain pen ever recorded and can write lines that are 40 nanometer wide.
5. Compared to right handed people, left handed people are most likely to write with fountain pens because of the rigid nib.
6. Famous personalities who were also levers of fountain pens were Arthur Conan Doyle, Neil Gaiman, Ernest Hemmingway and Elizabeth II.
7. Melville Junior School in Edinburgh has maintained to raise the academic performance of the students by insisting them to use fountain pen from the age of 7.
8. If you write continuously with fountain pen then you will develop a unique writing style.

With such amazing facts and such amazing design, fountain pens are actually a revolution in the field of writing. They are the best lens to be used and fountain pen can actually be very helpful in writing and are perfect to be used on a long run.