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“Sharpie has a great line of pens [but] the best Sharpie pen is the S-Gel ,” says Salazar, who prefers the 0.7mm nib (it also ...

June 10 is National Ballpoint Pen Day (as well as, for some reason, National Iced Tea Day). The inventor of the ballpoint pen was Hungarian journalist Laszlo Biro, who was also a hypnotist, racecar ...

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that serious, but if ...

Would you pay $180 for a new type of writing instrument? Image via The New York Times On a crisp fall morning in late October 1945, approximately 5,000 shoppers rushed the 32 nd street Gimbel’s ...

The first whispers came in the summer of 1944: a Hungarian inventor living in Argentina had created something sensational. Practical fountain pens with internal ink cartridges had been in use for ...