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Let's all thank Slavoljub Eduard Penkala .
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Following on from my thread last night about hot water bottles:
"The hot water bottles of Victorian times were earthenware with cork stoppers either shaped like jugs or flasks. They were used to heat bedding and might have been held in the lap for warmth but they weren't much good for cuddling or to lay on sore muscles. After Charles Goodyear created vulcanized rubber in the 1830's that could withstand heat without melting, the rubberized hot water bottle was not far behind. A Croatian inventor, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (1871 - 1922) patented the first hot water bottle as well as the first fountain pen, named in his honor." Interesting, wot?
"The hot water bottles of Victorian times were earthenware with cork stoppers either shaped like jugs or flasks. They were used to heat bedding and might have been held in the lap for warmth but they weren't much good for cuddling or to lay on sore muscles. After Charles Goodyear created vulcanized rubber in the 1830's that could withstand heat without melting, the rubberized hot water bottle was not far behind. A Croatian inventor, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (1871 - 1922) patented the first hot water bottle as well as the first fountain pen, named in his honor." Interesting, wot?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Dip pens for me too, but you were allowed to use your own fountain pen in primary school. I remember my mother telling me that my pen had to be filled from the ink bottle at home and not with school ink which would rot the inner tube. At grammar school you had to provide your own fountain pen. God knows how many I got through, either by losing them or chewing the ends off.
Just skimming this article sort of proves that there is seldomly a definitive answer to the question "When was such and such invented and by whom?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_pen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_pen
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