I tested a glass dip pen to see how it handles real ink while drawing. It looks fragile, sounds satisfying, and requires ...

Of course, the practice of dipping a small sharp object into a liquid to write messages is truly ancient. At first shaman and wealthy kings and other leaders were the only ones with access to written ...

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 ...