Student's Best Friend or Biggest Enemy: PEN
Hey Friends wanna know your PEN: Busygalaxies gets some interesting bits of information about emergence of the pen
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The
early humans probably scraped rocks onto other rocks, or sticks onto rocks, in
an attempt to draw/write.
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At first: Scracthing rocks onto other rocks. Pencils made of rustle led
Soon After: Quill Pen
Place where quill pen invented: Spain
Quill Pen was made up of: Swan Features
Time of invention: 19th Century
Pens
finally took on an actual shape in 3000 BC, as the ancient Egyptians used a
special type of rush that was growing on the coastline. This special type of
rush is known to us as "Juncus maritimus", or sea rushes. These
plants were used to develop writing on papyrus scrolls. A small advancement was
made to the early writing utensil in 1300 B.C., when the Romans developed a
metal stylus. The metal stylus was thoroughly defined here: An iron
instrument, resembling a pencil in size and shape, used for writing upon waxed
tablets. Forwarding several years later, the Egyptians advanced further
into the pen by employing thick Calamus/Bamboo reeds. The Chinese also had
their own plan [for pens] as well, as they implemented brushes made from Camel/Rat hair. The reed pen
survived until papyrus was replaced by animal skin.
The quill pen was created in the 5-6th century in Seville, Spain.
They were made from swan features.
The
quill pen was replaced by the metal nibs by 19th century.
Ball
point pens also made their mark in the pen history in the late 19th century,
but were their patents were not exploited commercially. Ball points made their
public appearance in the 1940s by Josef and Georg Biro, two Germans who fled
Nazi Germany to Argentina. The Biro brothers filed a new patent in 1943, and
their was accepted and sold in Argentina as Birome.
Another
manufacturer emerged from the depths of marketing with Bic pens in 1953, named
Michael Bich. In the 1960s when he published his campaign slogan, "Writes
The First Time, Every Time!".
In
1963, Rollerball pens were introduced to the public in 1963 by the Japanese
company, Ohto.
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