The pen is perhaps one of the most momentous discoveries ever. While there is no concrete evidence on when the first pen was discovered, history books point out that the first ever pen was a dip pen ...

If any one product were to sell at the incredible rate of 57 units per second over the course of a year, it would have to be considered one of the most commercially successful consumer products of all ...

[Bill Hammack], aka the [EngineerGuy] is at it again, this time explaining how retractable ballpoint pens work. In this excellent video, he describes the simple (but remarkably sophisticated) ...

Fountain pens were a stylish statement but messy and impractical. Their replacement was a stroke of design genius perfectly in time for the era of mass production. On 29 October 1945, the New York ...

Nendo, a Tokyo-based design with a knack for making pretty much everything, designed a ballpoint pen. The Blen — made for the Japanese pen company Zebra — is a subtle, $2.50 upgrade on the everyday ...

The ballpoint pen wasn't a single invention. Though American John J. Loud patented the first design in 1888 for writing on rough surfaces, his pen was impractical. Hungarian journalist László Bíró ...