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A  Brief History of Fountain Pens While the earliest record of a fountain-like pen dates from the 10th century, fountain pens as we know them today didn’t exist until the late 19th century. In 1884, an American named Lewis Waterman patented the first practical model after supposedly having a sales contract ruined by a leaky precursor. Before Waterman’s version, fountain pens were plagued with ink spills and blots, and were unreliable and inconvenient. The main problem of earlier fountain pens centered on airflow — there wasn’t enough. Fountain pens work by managing the rate at which the ink flows through the pen. When the pen is held at an upright angle, ink from the reservoir is drawn downward by gravity, and goes through the feed and to the nib in a controlled fashion. Unless air is brought into the reservoir to replace the ink as it is used, a vacuum will build up that stops the flow. Waterman solved this airflow issue by cutting a series of three f...

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Administrative assistant positions are found in almost every industry. Whether it’s finance, mining, legal, film, and/or retail, this position can be extremely demanding, and definitely deserves some recognition. Some might believe that being an administrative assistant is easy. That’s not the case, administrative assistants work extremely hard. They are educated individuals, who have charming personalities, and can pretty much do anything. 1. They Can Be Forced To Deal With Difficult Personalities Most administrative assistants have had to deal with a lot of personalities coming in and out of the office space. Generally, these people will be pleasant, while others will be ticking time-bombs throbbing with compressed anger, ready to unleash on the polite administrative assistant. When dealing with a difficult personality, admin staff usually have a witty charm about them. They can help the heated individual calm down and gain confidence in the company once again...

1.  Slice Do you find that the speed, efficiency and convenience of online shopping can be outweighed by the time consuming nature of tracking and receiving those deliveries? If you do then the Slice app can take the hassle out of your online shopping by automatically tracking them on your behalf and sending real-time updates. 2.  Amount This single clever little app can take the stress out of your cooking, shopping and even the calculation of your fuel consumption. Okay, so maybe it cannot take all the stress out of these activities, but you can use it to quickly and easily convert a whole host of different units for you and access vital data. 3.  Waze Traffic can be the bain of our lives, as it makes us late for our meetings and, lets face it, it can leave us feeling more than just a little frustrated . Well not anymore as, thanks to Waze, you can join forces against traffic with your local community by easily sharing real time...