2000 BC: People in China write with a brush made of mouse hair. This ink is a mixture of soot, lamp oil and gel.
BC 1200: The Egyptians extracted natural dyes and colors from berries, plants and minerals to make black water. This pen is a thin reed. 600 years later, the Egyptians invented papyrus.
AD 400: Many civilized societies invented more stable ink. It is a mixture of iron salt, oak shade and gum Arabic. This basic formula has been used for centuries.
AD 700: The Romans invented quill pens, using feathers from the wings of big birds. Feather pen became the main writing tool in the later 1000.
1548: Spanish calligrapher Juan? De? Iciar mentioned bronze pens for the first time in his calligraphy manual.
1700: Nicholas? Bion (a French musical instrument maker in Louis XIV) was the first person to leave drawings for fountain pens. He has five pens handed down from generation to generation.
1803: British engineer Brian? Jintang obtained the patent for the first pen tip.
1809: peglin? Williamson obtained the patent for pen making for the first time in the United States, which is a fountain pen with ink in the pen tube. However, his design has many defects.
1830: British steelworker William? Joseph? Gilroy, William? Mitchell and James. Stephen Perry invented the method of mass production of nib. Due to the improvement of steel quality in the next 20 years, fewer and fewer people use quill pens.
1884: new york insurance salesman Lewis? Edersen? Wortmann invented the first practical fountain pen after losing an important customer because the pen was broken.
1888: John from weymouth, Massachusetts, USA? Lauder applied for a patent for the first ballpoint pen, but it was not mass-produced until the patent expired.
In the first decade of the 20th century, four pen manufacturers dominated the market, namely Parker, Xifeili, Will Yongfeng and Liverman.
19 12: Xifeili Pen Co., Ltd. added a pull rod water absorption device to the pen tube of fountain pen. Before this, people used droppers to add ink to fountain pens.
1935: Wolman introduced the ink bag, which was a small glass tube with a cork at that time.
1938: Hungarian journalist radislo? Biro and his brother George invented the first practical ballpoint pen. It uses printing ink that can be dried quickly. The British government later allowed them to make ballpoint pens for British Air Force pilots. Ballpoint pens do not leak oil at high altitude, while fountain pens leak oil.
1945: Milton, a Chicago businessman? Reynolds redesigned Biro's invention and introduced it to America. Biro's invention was not patented in America at that time. Yongfeng Company, which owns the patent right of Biro's invention, soon put their products on the market. The new fountain pen caused a sensation and sold well.
1950: French baron Marcel? Bish founded Bick Company. His company is good at mass production of ballpoint pens. (Today, the bicycle company is the largest pen-making company in the world, selling 2,654,380,000 pens every day and 7.6 billion pens a year. )
195 1 year: after the initial craze, the public found that ballpoint pens were expensive and unreliable. The sales of ballpoint pens dropped sharply. The pen is back.
1954: Parker Pen Company launched a "notebook" ballpoint pen. This more reliable new ballpoint pen takes five times as long as the most popular similar products. Sales of ballpoint pens have picked up again.
1962: Tomiiki Horie of Tokyo Stationery Company is famous for inventing felt-tip pens.
1966: Fisher invented the space pen for NASA. The ink bag of this pen is pressurized and can write in weightlessness.
1979: Gillette has introduced a new type of pen, which can erase words within 10 hour. The key is to use rubber glue as ink.
1984: Japan Sakura Company introduced neutral ink pen, which is an intermediate product of ballpoint pen and marker pen, and uses neutral pen.
2000 BC: People in China write with a brush made of mouse hair. This ink is a mixture of soot, lamp oil and gel.
BC 1200: The Egyptians extracted natural dyes and colors from berries, plants and minerals to make black water. This pen is a thin reed.
AD 700: The Romans invented the quill pen.
1548: Spanish calligrapher Juan? De? Iciar mentioned bronze pens for the first time in his calligraphy manual.
1884: new york insurance salesman Lewis? Edersen? Wortmann invented the first practical fountain pen.
Type of pen
Widely used
Ballpoint pen, pencil, pen, signature pen, highlighter, chalk, whiteboard pen.
Artistic uses: pastel pen, crayon, charcoal pen, watercolor pen, oil painting pen, Mike pen.
Brush: it is divided into big characters, middle characters and small characters.
Needle pen, substitute needle pen, pigment pen, colored pencil
Special purpose: laser pen, tattoo pen, invisible ink pen.
Pen is a great invention of human beings and a tool for writing or painting. Colored solid or liquid (ink) often draws symbols or pictures on the surface of paper or other solid through the pen tip, and also engraves symbols or pictures on the surface by using the characteristic that the hardness of the solid pen tip is greater than the writing surface.
Signature pens and ballpoint pens are widely used now, while pencils are often used to draw art papers and drawings. In ancient times, in China, brushes were used. In ancient Greece and Rome, wax was painted on the surface of wooden boards, and then iron bars were used to write on the wax surface. In ancient Egypt and Persia, reed stalks were sharpened and used as pens. Reed pens or quill pens have been used in Europe and America since the Middle Ages. The two kinds of pens are completely different because of the nib material. The brush is soft, round and varies greatly in thickness, while the reed pen is hard and square.
There are quite a few kinds of pens now, and the methods of making them are quite diverse.
Type of pen
Widely used
ball pen
pencil
pen
sign pen
highlighter
chalk
Whiteboard pen
Artistic use
color pen
crayon
charcoal pencil
water color pen
oil paint
Mike pen
Brush: it is divided into big characters, middle characters and small characters.
Needle pen
Substitute stylus
Drawing pen
Color pencil
Special purpose
laser pointer
Tattoo pen
Invisible ink pen