To find the best ballpoint pens, I tested a dozen options from brands like Bic, Pentel, Pilot and more. Check out the ...

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 ...

June 10 is National Ballpoint pen day. Why celebrate such a seemingly simple item? When it was invented, the ballpoint pen was revolutionary. The writing apparatus was invented by Hungarian painter ...

The evolution of writing implement technology is a continuous and subtle one. Lewis Waterman opened up the possibility of portable pens with his invention of a practical fountain pen in 1884. But ...

The idea of perforating the caps of pens appears to have started in the United Kingdom, where a new safety standard was adopted in 1990 (BS 7272). Between 1970 and 1984, nine children in the United ...