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The man who made a diamond.

A young chemist who refused to accept no and build the first man made diamond against all odds.

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Gel Ink

Gel Ink

The story of how gel ink was invented a 1970s quest by Japanese chemists at Sakura to create ink that behaves like ketchup: solid at rest, liquid in motion. The unexpected answer came from a food additive in a trade magazine.

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Discovery of Stainless Steel

Discovery of Stainless Steel

In 1913, a self-taught metallurgist named Harry Brearley discovered a steel that acid couldn't corrode and changed the world forever. This is the story of stainless steel, and the quiet lineage that runs through every noble. pen.

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The Ballpoint Pen

The Ballpoint Pen

  In 1930s Budapest, a journalist named László Bíró spent his days around printing presses. Something bothered him. The ink that printed the newspaper dried almost instantly, but the ink in his fountain pen smudged, leaked, and dried out. He...

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A Brief History of Aluminum

A Brief History of Aluminum

For most of history, no one had ever seen aluminum. Surprisingly, it’s the most common metal in the Earth's crust. It’s never found in its pure form in nature. It sits locked inside other minerals, and for thousands of years...

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Titanium bone implant showing osseointegration

Why Titanium Bonds With Bone: The Rabbit Accident

In 1952, a rabbit's bone fused to a titanium tube. No one believed it mattered. This is the story of how that accident changed medicine and why we make one of our pens from the same material.

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Fisher Space Pen ® - The pens that made it to space.

Fisher Space Pen ® - The pens that made it to space.

One man, his own money, a problem NASA couldn't solve.   Floating in zero gravity, the ink cannot flow out of the point. The ball rolls around, and there is no gravity to pull the ink down, so nothing comes...

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It takes 99 hands to make this paper.

It takes 99 hands to make this paper.

The Great Hanji Papermakers of Korea In Korea, there is a paper called Hanji, and one of its old names is Baekji, which means hundred-paper. The name comes from how it's made. The papermaker's hands touch each sheet ninety-nine times,...

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