Talk:George Westinghouse's Fountain Pen/@comment-1674153-20160403051152

This isn't really a Class O artifact, but I enjoy this one's ability thoroughly. My only REAL issue with it is a matter of historical context. The ball point pen wasn't patented until 1988, and it was never distributed because it just didn't work well enough to be marketable, and it wasn't until 1935 when the design was improved enough to actually go public. Furthermore, retractable pens (click pens) weren't invented until the middle of the twentieth century.

I love the idea of a pen that shoots bolts of electricity. But given the time period it has to be a fountain pen.