Rotring Rapidograph
INVENTED BY A Canadian and intended as a better fountain pen, the original stylograph was at best a limited success. Then, 50 years after its invention, a German exploited its unrivalled ability to draw fine lines of a consistent width and thereby turned it into the quintessential professional technical pen of the 20th Century.
Scribes had laboured through history to create a pen that didn’t require constant dipping. There have been reports of
