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FIRST STYLOGRAPH
And it's always like this! We allow ourselves to be misused, because reading the names of the many fountain pen systems, one might think the inventor was an American. In reality, it is a Frenchman who deserves the purely moral credit for inventing the "pen."
Indeed, the reservoir pen holder was discovered by Mallat, a Frenchman who, around 1840, ran a watchmaking business in a shop located in Paris, on Rue Neuve-Saint-François. He had conducted experiments; one always tries things out before perfecting a new idea.
It was in 1854 that he invented the process of storing the ink in the hollow of the pen holder. Only ten years after his discovery, he filed a patent. It had already been invented, but his process was not yet fully understood. If in France we have forgotten him, at least in England we still call Mallat "the father of the reservoir pen holder".
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