Me too! I've just spent 20 minutes searching for that online, couldn't find it!
'primary school fountain pens' - google image search
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Me too! I've just spent 20 minutes searching for that online, couldn't find it!
'primary school fountain pens' - google image search
Leads to - http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/221594-the-platignum-school-cartridge-pen/
I didn't get one at primary school, it was secondary school they were introduced. The first one was free, if you lost it it was five VERY NEW pence to replace.
I've got 3 pens on my desk at work along with 3 bottles of Ink. Blue, Red and Green.
Must have been blue, which is an abomination - ink is black all other colours are for kids drawing and stuff.
Nope. Design engineer.Do you work in an embassy issuing visas or summat?
I like the story (which is probably apocryphal) about the American space program where they spent a fortune developing a pen that would work in zero gravity. The Russians on the other hand used pencils.
According to the Russian Space Agency, they got round the problem by using crayons...
and this is where I spoil the party.
Graphite dust from a pencilis very very conductive. in a zero gravity environment it will end up in electronic eqpt where it MAY cause catastrophic failures of systems.
the russians moved over to ink quite quickly as they too realized flammable stuff in a high O2 atmosphere was NOT a good idea
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
I have lovely handwriting, even if I say so myself. I won prizes for it at primary school, and when I teach (as I do on occasion), other teachers come from miles around to gaze at my super-neat, colour-coded boardwork.
I've been watching with interest the programme on Pick about Harrow. They have a punishment for the boys which is called double, it's a kind of lines where the characters have to be neatly written and there are supposed to be 60 characters on each line. They also have a special variant called Christmas Double where they have to alternate colours for each character, something like this.I have lovely handwriting, even if I say so myself. I won prizes for it at primary school, and when I teach (as I do on occasion), other teachers come from miles around to gaze at my super-neat, colour-coded boardwork.