Assertion: fountain pen | /r/CapableOf | retain their dominance
Facets:
value: during the 1940s
type: TEMPORAL
value: during 1950s
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: During the 1940s and 1950s, fountain pens retained their dominance: early ballpoint pens were expensive, were prone to leaks and had irregular inkflow, while the fountain pen continued to benefit from the combination of mass production and craftsmanship.(Bíró's patent, and other early patents on ball-point pens often used the term "ball-point fountain pen," because at the time the ball-point pen was considered a type of fountain pen; that is, a pen that held ink in an enclosed reservoir.)
text: Despite the introduction of the ballpoint pen in the early 1900s, fountain pens maintained their dominance as the go-to writing instrument up until the mid-point of the century.
text: Fountain pens continued as the dominant writing instrument until the ballpoint pen’s reliability and lower price-point won over consumers in the mid-20th century.