The inventor of the world’s first fountain pen 2018-1-ES01-KA229-050515_6 DEALING WITH GIFTED EDUCATION Petrache Poenaru (1799-1875) The inventor of the world’s first fountain pen

2018-1-ES01-KA229-050515_6 DEALING WITH GIFTED EDUCATION A gifted scientist He was a Romanian inventor, mathematician, physicist, teacher and politician. He also founded the Philharmonic Society of Romania and  the National Museum of Antiquities in Bucharest.

2018-1-ES01-KA229-050515_6 DEALING WITH GIFTED EDUCATION A gifted student He studied in Paris and Vienna and, later, he completed his studies in England as a mathematician, engineer and inventor. While he was a student in Paris, he invented the world’s first fountain pen, an invention for which the French Government issued a patent on 25 May 1827.

2018-1-ES01-KA229-050515_6 DEALING WITH GIFTED EDUCATION Poenaru's fountain pen The French Government was impressed by his invention, that it described as a “never-ending portable pen, which recharges itself with ink"

Stamps made for the commemoration of the inventor of the fountain pen. 2018-1-ES01-KA229-050515_6 DEALING WITH GIFTED EDUCATION Stamps made for the commemoration of the inventor of the fountain pen.

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