Mirifix78 a écrit : ↑05 avr. 2026 22:06
J'ai toujours dit que les dentistes avaient la capacité de tailler parfaitement les plumes.
tu ne crois pas si bien dire
un dentiste aurait inspiré George Parker pour ses plumes Duofold, plus raides que les précédentes
il en parle en 1926 (!!!),
https://parkersheaffer.com/parker-duofold-policy/
A few years ago, a friend with whom I was talking over some of the improvement work we are constantly doing on our pens and pencils, said:
“There’s a chap making dental machinery down in New England who would be a help to you on this work.”
Partly because he was not a pen-and-pencil man, I went down to see him, and hired him.
When he came out to Janesville to work, he said to me:
“As you know, I know almost nothing about the fountain-pen business. If you don’t mind, I’d rather not be told anything, for the present. It will be better, I think, if I do not know too much about how things have seen done. Just let me take me of the pens and think about it and see how it seems to me- they ought to be done.”
The pen point, as the business end of the pen, was the first thing he studied, and he immediately discovered a practice there that struck him as strange. As with all other pens of that time, the “two sides of the point of our pen were braced together at the tip.
It had been assumed from time immemorial in the pen business that the bracing was necessary to make the point strong. No one experienced in the pen business would have thought of questioning the practice: no one had questioned it in many years at any rate.
But the dental machinery man, with his mind fresh toward our work, immediately thought of it as odd. He noticed that the two sides of the pen were strong enough to stand on their own, without this pressing together. He thought the ink might flow down between them better if they were not so pressed.
And he made up a pen in this novel style to find out.
This fountain pen was the first ever made in our factory, and the first ever made anywhere, so far as I know, that was sure to write the moment it was set to paper.
We adopted the new style of point, and it has been a large factor in our sales ever since. I have recently been around the world, and I have found people everywhere giving this as a reason for having purchased our pen.
One of the easiest assumptions for all of us, I suspect -all managers, I mean- is that the best guidance in running our business is what already has been done in it, in our own concern or in others in our line.
I am certainly not saying that we have profited by ignoring what has worked well for us in the past, or what has worked well for our competitors. But I am frank in saying that our best gains have come from departures from both.
Joli stylo et chouette plume on dirait ! Merci pour la présentation.
