Link: The American Archivist 1980
The American Archivist 1980
The reservoir pen, which had been known in the eighteenth century, offered a partial solution to the first problem. While reservoir pens were sometimes com- plex in design, their principle was simple. An open pocket or recess was fixed to the back of a quill or steel dip pen and this reservoir was filled by submerging it in an inkwell. Although the ink supply was not large, it would permit the penman to write several times what he could with a single dip of a quill or metal pen. These devices remained in use until the twentieth century.
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