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Conventional dip pens typically had to be reloaded with ink by the end of each sentence. The fountain pen was invented in 1880 by an insurance salesman named Louis Edson Waterman.

In fact, according to the brand, the “G2 has been proven to be the longest-lasting gel ink pen”—and given that I’m still using the G2s that I bought over five years ago, I believe them.