After our paean to Sir Clive Sinclair's C5 electrical vehicle last week, this Friday offers not another ridiculed invention of the 1980s, but a true timeless classic: the venerable, humble, and ...

“John, whenever you see a bottle of ink on a desk, knock it off! We need to sell more ink!” Those were the words of George Peske, the manager of the Parker Pen Company’s plant in Menomonie in the ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: November 1st, 1863, 152 years ago today ... a day to write home about. For that was the day the future fountain pen magnate George S. Parker was born ...