Pens that changed the landscape.

[jar]

I think you missed one--the Parker Vacumatic. It was the 1st see-through pen and the 1st to
use a vacuum-type approach to filling a pen with ink.



John

Are you sure of that? It was the first to replace the springbar with a pump filler but not many other companies immediately jumped on that type filler and there weren't there several celluloid pens around that time that had see through bodies?

[Deb]

I think you missed one--the Parker Vacumatic. It was the 1st see-through pen and the 1st to
use a vacuum-type approach to filling a pen with ink.


John

Bulb fillers - which is what the Vacumatic is - have been around for a long time.

[pengeezer]

I think you missed one--the Parker Vacumatic. It was the 1st see-through pen and the 1st to
use a vacuum-type approach to filling a pen with ink.


John

Bulb fillers - which is what the Vacumatic is - have been around for a long time.

I wouldn't quite classify the Vac as a bulb filler,but the Vac was the 1st pen to have
a see-through barrel. Most bulb fillers--if not all--had only part of the barrel as see-
through.


John

[Deb]

It's a bulb filler with a mechanical means of depressing the bulb. Also,you claim that it was the first pen to use a vacuum-type approach to fill a pen with ink. Sac-fillers, plunger-fillers and piston-fillers all operate by creating a vacuum which fills with ink. I don't dispute that it's the first see-through pen.

[inklord]

Aren't fountain pens more and more "looking back" rather than forward? And has design and technology of fountain pens not become rather anachronistic in this day and age? So I am not surprised that there are no newer breakthrough pens - just like timepieces they have become a rather whimsical toy and status symbol. So I think we can at least drop the search after 1970 (that's the Hastil...).

[TSherbs]

Interesting thread. I don't know anything about pen history.

[HughC]

It should be noted Aurora only reintroduced slim pens, many early eyedroppers where very slim. Probably significant enough in it's own right but more significant than say the Sheaffer Snorkel is a big call. The Parker 45 was a pretty significant milestone too imo and the rather pedestrian Sheaffer School pen probably deserves more recognition but maybe not in this list.