Porous Point
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Rollerballs
- Rollerball pens were introduced in the early 1980s. They make use of a mobile ball and liquid ink to produce a smoother line. Technological advances achieved during the late 1980s ...
Felt tips
- In the 1960s the fibre, or felt-tipped pen was invented by Yukio Horie of the Tokyo Stationery Company, Japan. Papermate's Flair was among the first felt-tip pens to hit the ...
Ballpoints
- The first patent on a ballpoint pen was issued on October 30 1888, to John J Loud. In 1938, László BÃró, a Hungarian newspaper editor, with the help of his ...
Fountain pens
- While a student in Paris, the Romanian inventor Petrache Poenaru invented the world's first fountain pen, an invention for which the French Government issued a patent on May 25, 1827. ...
Metal nibs
- Metal nibs appear to have very early origins. A pen with a bronze nib was found in the ruins of Pompei showing nibs must have been in use in the ...
Quills
- The Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in 1947 on the northwest bank of the Dead Sea date back to around 100 BC. They were written in Hebrew dialects with bird feathers ...
Reed pens
- The Ancient Egyptians had developed writing on papyrus scrolls when scribes used thin reed brushes or reed pens from the Juncus Maritimus or sea rush [1]. In his book A ...
Types of pen
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Translations: Pen
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