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Retracting spring

Patent drawing of a cylindrical stylographic pen shown whole and in two cutaway sections revealing an internal spring-loaded needle stylus running through a central air-tube to a tapering ink-discharge point.

STYLOGRAPHIC PEN.Frederick J. Seybold · February 13, 1883

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