What is the history and development of pens?

The history and development of pen is that people carve characters on bone plates and bamboo slips, and the knives used are called knife pens. Later, people dipped bamboo sticks in pigments and wrote them on bamboo silks. Bamboo sticks were called bamboo pens. Later, people tried to write with all kinds of hair tied to a stick, and gradually the brush appeared. Pencils appeared in China in the Han Dynasty, but they were not popularized for some reason. The ancient Romans wrote with lead, while the western Europeans wrote with pencils until the middle of16th century. /kloc-invented fountain pen in 0/890 and ballpoint pen in World War II.

The ancestor of the pen should be the writing brush praised by China literati as one of Four Treasures of the Study. For thousands of years, the writing brush has left countless calligraphy treasures for the Chinese nation. Perhaps because there are many curves in European characters, it is not suitable for soft pen writing. Therefore, the brush was not introduced to the West like other ancient inventions in China. Europeans have their own unique writing tools-quill pens.

Feather pen was invented by ancient Egyptians. It also has a long history. With quill pens, the strokes of characters can be thickened with greater force and thinned with less force. The quill pen can be dipped in ink for a long time to write continuously. But once it is used for a long time, the nib will be worn bare, which is inconvenient for long-term use.

1829, the British james bailey successfully developed the nib. After special treatment, it is smooth and elastic, and it is quite smooth to write, which is deeply loved by people. But this pen must be dipped in ink to write, which is very troublesome. Brama, an Englishman, made a pen out of silver, and then filled it with ink, so that the ink flowed out of the nib, and it seemed that he could write fluently.

The uses and benefits of pens.

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.

Pen is a writing tool, which can be used to learn cultural and scientific knowledge, exchange information, publicize ideas, contact feelings and so on. Pens are indispensable cultural goods in life.