Who invented Pen?
The pen that we use today has gone through a lot of developments from the time it was first invented.
History of Pen
The
very first reference to the use of a pen was seen in the year 500 BC in India.
By then, they used sticks and bamboos as pens. Most of the books written during
that era used this kind of technology. But, interestingly, in the year 300BC,
pens made from reeds were used as some scholars have suggested. Upon checking
into the discoveries that have been made in the evidence from the past, it has
been found that nib pens had been used somewhere around the year 1663.
A fountain pen
In
the year 1827 the fountain pen was discovered by Romania Petrache Poenaru. This
pen worked for a while and became popular in France where it had been invented
and patented. It was mainly famous for its ability to write without messing up
the hands of the writer or the paper where it was being written. Later, an
improvement to this pen was made in the year 1888 when John J Loud invented the
ball point pen. This was an improvement on the earlier design which sometimes
never produced a smooth flow of the writing on paper or certain materials.
Since this pen had just been invented, there were still other problems
associated with it, so it needed improvements.
A ballpoint pen
In the year 1938, Laszro
Biro invented a pen that came to be known as a biro pen – after his name. It
used a ball that rotated when someone was writing and collected ink which was
packed in a cartridge, and smeared it on the paper. This was a sealed pen and
had also the advantage of not messing up the paper. But, in the 1960s Yukio
Horie invented the felt tipped pens. Finally, roller ball pens came on the
market too in the 1970s with well designed features that made them uniquely fit
for the purpose.
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