Space Pen

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

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What Wikipedia says

The Space Pen (also known as the Zero Gravity Pen), marketed by Fisher Space Pen Company, is a pen that uses pressurized ink cartridges and is able to write in zero gravity, underwater, over wet and greasy paper, at any angle (including upside down), and in a very wide range of temperatures.

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