Instrument for writing with ink before metal dip pen, the fountain pen, & ballpoint
-used in medieval times to write in parchments or paper
QUILLS
Cut from a reed bambok, with a slit in a narrow tip
A REED PEN
First appeared in SEVILLE SPAIN where the writing instrument from 600 to 1800 AD.
QUILL PENS
Invented independently in France & Australia.
PENCIL LEAD
Common use in the 1830s.
STEEL NIBS
Student in Paris, Romanian, who Invented the FOUNTAIN PEN which the French Gov. Patented in MAY 1827
PETRATCHE POENARU
First patent was issued on OCT 30, 1888 to JOHN J. LOUD
BALLPOINT PEN
Patented in 1803 but patent was not comercially exploited
METAL PEN POINT