The chronicle of the fountain pen
Subtitle: stories within a story
By: João Pavão Martins, Luiz Leite, and António Gagean.
Contributors: Leite, Luiz.; Gagean, António.
Publisher: Schiffer
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Atglen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780764326165
Subjects: Fountain pens -- History
Table of contents: title: Preparing the ground (1865 - 1882); title: Few words about patents; title: Birth of the fountain pen (1883 - 1900); title: Pens become practical (1901 - 1918); title: Golden years begin (1919 - 1923); title: Age of plastic dawns (1924 - 1928); title: Streamlined pen (1929 - 1932); title: Prewar years (1933 - 1939); title: Pen in a world at war (1940 - 1945); title: Under the siege of the ballpoint (1946 - 1957); title: Struggle for survival (1958 - 1981); title: Pen reborn (1982 - 2005).