FOUNTAIN PENS
DISCOVERED 150 YEARS AGO. Centenaries of 1939 will include that of the fountain pen. At the beginning of. the French Revolution, in 1789, a Parisian, citizen Barthelot, announced "a new invention for writing without having to dip one's pen or cut it"—the pens needing cutting, being of course, the old quill pens. The -Polygraph." as he called his invention, “only uses ink while being used for writing and is carried in the pocket like a pencil." The pen was composed of sixteen parts, was described as being light. and sold for si:, francs.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 February 1939, Page 7
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95FOUNTAIN PENS Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 February 1939, Page 7
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