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  2. Arthur Wynne - Wikipedia

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    Arthur Wynne was born on June 22, 1871, in Liverpool, England, and lived on Edge Lane for a time.His father was the editor of the local newspaper, the Liverpool Mercury. [1]

  3. Lewis Waterman - Wikipedia

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    Lewis Edson Waterman (November 20, 1836 – May 1, 1901) was an American inventor. He held multiple fountain pen patents and was the founder of the Waterman Pen Company.. His entry into fountain pen manufacturing has only recently been properly researched.

  4. László Bíró - Wikipedia

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    Bíró presented the first production of the ballpoint pen at the Budapest International Fair in 1931. [1] Working with his brother György, [5] [6] a chemist, he developed a new tip consisting of a ball that was free to turn in a socket, and as it turned it would pick up a special viscous ink from a cartridge and then roll to deposit it on the ...

  5. Ballpoint pen - Wikipedia

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    A ballpoint pen, also known as a biro [1] (British English), ball pen (Hong Kong, Indonesia, Pakistani, Indian and Philippine English), or dot pen [2] (Nepali English and South Asian English), is a pen that dispenses ink (usually in paste form) over a metal ball at its point, i.e., over a "ball point".

  6. Fountain pen - Wikipedia

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    A fountain pen is a writing instrument that uses a metal nib to apply water-based ink, or special pigment ink—suitable for fountain pens—to paper. It is distinguished from earlier dip pens by using an internal reservoir to hold ink, eliminating the need to repeatedly dip the pen in an inkwell during use.

  7. List of terms about pen and ink - Wikipedia

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    Ballpoint pen – an ink pen which uses a roller ball tip; Ballpoint pen artwork; Bic Cristal – a brand of inexpensive, disposable ink pen; Birmingham pen trade – commerce of ink pens in Birmingham, England; Birmingham Pen Trade Heritage Association; Biro – a type of ink pen, also known as a ballpoint pen

  8. Slavoljub Eduard Penkala - Wikipedia

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    To mark his loyalty to his new homeland, he took on the Croatian name Slavoljub (Croatian for "slavophile"), becoming a naturalized Croat. He became renowned for further development of the mechanical pencil (1906) [ 4 ] - then called an "automatic pencil" - and the first solid-ink fountain pen (1907). [ 5 ]

  9. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...