The nib, or point, on a quill pen got flat quickly and had to be sharpened over and over, which meant quill pens didn’t last long, but it wasn’t until 1884 that a man named Lewis Waterman invented a fountain pen with a steel nib so that could be used a long time. Run-on sentence or rambling sentence?
A. run-on
B. rambling
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