Why is a fountain pen so called?

Answer 1

A real fountain pen had a fountain of ink in it as opposed to having to dip the pen in a bottle of ink. You pulled out a little metal lever to fill it. If you pulled the lever to empty it, it spurted like a small fountain. I don't think they make real fountain pens anymore. Now the ink is in a cartridge.







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Answer 2

Hi Shalini
In 1884 Lewis Waterman, a New York insurance agent, patented the first practical fountain pen containing its own ink reservoir. Waterman invented a mechanism that fed ink to the pen point by capillary action, allowing ink to flow evenly while writing. By the 1920s the fountain pen was the chief writing instrument in the West and remained so until the introduction of the ballpoint pen after World War II.
Count Dracula

Answer 3

Before invention of what we call fountain pen people used to dip their pen in ink kept in a bottle or ink pot and would run out quickly after writing one or two lines. Thereafter some one
(Parker ?) invented a pen in which we can fill ink which would oozeout ink continuously like a fountain. That is why it is called a fountain pen.

Answer 4

It looks you have not seen one. Mainly and the only reason is that the pen -- has a reservoir "of ink" and therefore put 2 and 2 together -- it is natural to call it "fountain pen".

Answer 5

because the liquid ink leaves the pen due to gravity - much like water falling down a fountian.

Answer 6

coz when it leaks it's ink comes out as fountain

Answer 7

Because it was invented by a man called Waterman!

Answer 8

Here you go
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa100897.htm

Answer 9

i don't know