Imagine this. You go to a department store and spent US$125 on a new kind of
pen. It's advertised as the best pen ever made, and you rush home to try it
out. But when you try to write, the pen only scratches the paper and no ink
comes out. You press a little harder, and suddenly ink starts pouring out of
the pen making a big inky mess! Disappointed? So were the 5,000 people who
had this happen to them back in 1945.
The common pen was once an expensive hightech item. And in the early days,
they did not work very well. It took many years of experimentation before
pens became the cheap, disposable writing tools they are today.
Generally speaking, a pen is any tool used for writing or drawing that uses
ink. By this definition, the first "pens" were the writing brushes used by
the Chinese around 2,500 years ago. The early Egyptians had writing tools
made from reeds. And Europeans were using feather, or quill pens at least as
early as the 7th century. The pens we use today are mostly ballpoint pens,
and it is this style of pen that has benefited most from improvements in
technology.
to be continued....
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