How the original pen evolved into what it is today

How did the original pen evolve into what it is today?

The history and development process of the pen is that people engrave words on the bone plate and bamboo slip wood chips, using a knife called a knife pen, since later someone used bamboo strips dipped in paint to write on bamboo silk, bamboo strips are called bamboo pens, and then people tried to use a variety of hairs tied to the wooden stick to write, and gradually the brush appeared, the pencil appeared in the Han Dynasty in China, and for some reason it was not promoted. Ancient Romans wrote with lead bars, and Western Europeans wrote with pencils until the middle of the 16th century. The fountain pen was invented in 1890, and the ballpoint pen was invented in World War II.

The ancestor of the pen should be the brush, which was hailed by the Chinese literati as one of the four treasures of the scholar's room. For thousands of years, the brush has left countless calligraphy treasures for the Chinese nation. Perhaps because European characters had more curves and were not suitable for writing with soft Chinese brushes, the brush was not introduced to the West like other ancient Chinese inventions.

Europeans have their own unique writing instrument - quill pens.

The quill pen was invented by the ancient Egyptians. It also has a long history. With a quill pen, you can write thicker strokes with more force, and you can write thinner with a little force.

The quill pen can be dipped in ink and can write continuously for a long time. However, once used for a long time, the nib will be worn bald, making it inconvenient for long-term use.

In 1829, the Englishman James Beley succeeded in developing a fountain nib. It is specially processed, sleek and elastic, and it is quite smooth to write, which is very popular with people. However, this kind of pen has to be dipped in ink to write, which is very troublesome.

Brahma, an Englishman, made a barrel out of silver, and then filled the barrel with ink so that it flowed out of the nib and seemed to be able to write smoothly.

Uses and benefits of pens.

The pen, a great invention of mankind, is a tool used for writing or painting. Symbols or drawings are often drawn on paper or other solid surfaces using the tip of a pen with a colored solid or liquid (ink), and there are also cases where the hardness of the solid nib is greater than that of the writing surface to carve symbols or drawings on the surface. Nowadays, signature pens and ballpoint pens are commonly used, and pencils are often used for drawing art sketches and drawings.

The pen is a writing tool, which can be used to learn cultural and scientific knowledge, exchange information, promote ideas, communicate feelings, and so on. The pen is an indispensable cultural item in life.

When the ancient people created writing, they began to use sharp stone tools, animal bones and branches to engrave words on stone walls, flat ground, tree bark, and oracle bones, which is probably the prototype of the pen.

The earliest inks were dark water and blood from randomly selected animals. Later, humans discovered metals and used them in production and living tools. The clever ancient Egyptians first made nibs out of copper and then tied them to wooden tubes that could be stored in ink.

This is probably the earliest fountain pen.

Later, people wrote on soft paper with goose feathers, duck feathers and crow pencils, more than the previous pens, but greatly accelerated the writing speed and played a role in the history of the pen.

<>1. In ancient China, a brush was used. Ancient Greece and Rome used to paint wax on the wooden board, and then use an iron rod to draw on the wax surface, and ancient Egypt and Persia used the reed rod sharpened as a pen.

2. Since the Middle Ages, in Europe and the United States, reed pens or quill pens are used, and in 2012, the capped pencil invented by the Chinese has become a new contribution in the process of pen development history in China. With the development of society, there are more and more types of pens, such as pencils, brushes, pens, sticky note pens, highlighters, ballpoint pens, pencils, crayons, etc.

3. Nowadays, gel pens and ballpoint pens are commonly used, and pencils are mostly used to draw art sketches and drawings.

What did the original pen look like? And how did he evolve step by step?

The original pen was a brush.

In 2000 BC, the Chinese wrote with brushes made of mouse hair, and ink was made with a mixture of soot, lamp oil, and gel.

In 1200 B.C., the Egyptians extracted natural dyes and colors from berries, plants, and minerals to make black water, and the "pen" was a fine reed.

In 700 AD, the Romans invented the quill (quill pen) with a feather on the wings of a large bird, and the quill became the main writing instrument (in the West) for the next 1,000 years.

The ballpoint pen of modern times is an American, John. Invented by Lauder. There is a small ball rotating on the tip of the pen when writing, and the ink of the ballpoint pen is specially made. There are two types of ballpoint pens: one is, oily ballpoint pens; There is also a water-based ballpoint pen.

In the earliest stage of human history, writing tools were different depending on the region, for example, in China it used a carving knife and a brush, while in ancient Egypt it used a reed rod, and in ancient Babylon it was ...... with an iron rod or a wooden rod

If the landlord refers to the pen of our country, then it is easier to answer. The landlord has heard of General Qin-Meng Tian, right? Legend has it that Meng Tian made a brush with sheep's hair, so he was regarded as the "ancestor of the pen" in the folk.

However, legends are just legends, not necessarily accurate. I read in the book that there are traces of brushes on the cultural relics unearthed in Yinxu, so it can be speculated that there were already brushes in the Shang Dynasty. It may be that there are many kinds of materials used in the brush (wolf's and sheep's), and the material chosen by General Meng is more "popular".

Next, the development of writing instruments in China is very slow, basically the fine-tuning of production technology and materials.

The pens we use today may be pencils, pens and ballpoint pens.

Pencils have been around for a long time, but at that time, they were all held directly with their hands - inconvenient and unhygienic, and later they were wrapped with rope around the refill, and then an American invented the refill in the wooden stick, and the pencil was finalized.

The history of fountain pens is also two or three hundred years, at first it was modeled on a quill pen, dipped in ink to write, and then an American found inspiration from the principle of water absorption by plant rhizomes and invented the fountain pen that we now commonly use.

The ballpoint pen is relatively young, but it has the most "scandals". It was originally a European journalist who was inspired by the printing house and invented the ballpoint pen. But it was an American businessman who popularized it and won a lawsuit against a journalist and his brother — and in the end many people made money on this trendy gadget, while its inventor was destitute.

I guess I guess I started by taking a branch and pulling it on the ground.

Wood, stone, gold, wool, fountain pen, ballpoint pen.

The earliest record was to carve bamboo slips with a knife. The earliest pen was a brush, which was invented by Meng Tian of the Qin Dynasty.

The brush is a traditional writing instrument that originated in China, and its origins can be traced back to the Neolithic period. In 1980, the painted pottery pattern unearthed in Shaanxi can identify the traces of the brush depiction, and the bamboo pipe brush unearthed from the Chu tomb of the Warring States Period in Hunan is the earliest brush object found at present, and there is a saying that Meng Tian made a pen in the Qin Dynasty.

During the Han Dynasty, the brush entered a new stage of development. First, it created the decoration process of engraving and inlay on the pen barrel; Second, there are works on the making of brushes. In the Tang Dynasty, Hebei Houdian Village brush artist Li Wenkui opened a pen shop in Beijing, to the Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Zhejiang emerged a number of pen experts, such as Feng Yingke, Lu Wenbao, Zhang Tianxi, etc., with goat hair to make sheep hair pen popular in the world, known as "lake pen".

The history of the development of the pen can be divided into three periods: (1) the initial period of writing with a rod The birth of the pen is to be used to draw symbols on the ground branches, wooden sticks, bones, etc. are just a bare pole, but it is this simplest thing to draw the oldest human writing, the ancient Sumerians used this pen to draw the world-famous deed-style on the clay tablet, the charcoal stick can draw black traces, the ancient Egyptians used it to record their own hieroglyphs, and later due to the carrier of the text oracle bones and stone tablets, So there was a knife and pen. The knife and pen are also rod-type, and it appeared to deal with hard oracle bones and stones.

Since the ancients discovered that the charcoal stick can be used to write words, this method has been used, and found that graphite can also be scribbled, but whether the charcoal stick or graphite stick is very easy to stain the hand, the intelligent human beings in the charcoal stick and graphite stick outside the coat, mostly softwood, that is, the current pencil, its biggest feature is that the handwriting is easy to change, eraser erase, the handwriting is completely gone. (2) The period of dipping pen With the development of text carriers to cloth and bamboo slips, the period of writing on behalf of the rod slowly ended, and the second generation of dipping pens began to appear, among which the first is the brush, the brush is made of bamboo rods, the hair of the animal is the tip of the pen, the hair of the animal is soft and hard, and the water absorption is strong, but because the brush has too high requirements for holding the pen posture and the speed of the pen, the dipping pen has another form of --- quill, and people find that the long feathers of the bird's wing tail are harder and suitable for hand holding. The feather stem is hollow again, just enough to dip in ink, and it is quite convenient to write, so the quill came into being, but it has many shortcomings, such as the amount of water in the quill is not easy to control, and the handwriting is thick and thin, and it is not good to drip ink on the paper. (3) The period of portable pens Since the mid-80s of the 19th century, on the basis of the quill pen, the fountain pen was invented, and the fountain pen quickly replaced the traditional quill and became the main writing instrument in the 20th century.

Fountain pen is also called fountain pen, it is a portable pen made according to the principle of air pressure, the pen bile is an empty small cylinder, squeeze it to make the air discharge, let go of the space volume inside the increase, the pressure becomes smaller, the internal and external greater pressure makes the ink suck into the pen bibladder, the ink that is pressed into the writing is flowed out with the tip of the pen under the action of gravity, so that the writing does not have to keep dipping in ink, greatly saving time, and the writing is smooth, convenient, and later, the ballpoint pen that is more convenient for writing was invented, because it is an oil-based writing material, It avoids the trouble that the fountain pen will leak ink, and the writing time is longer, lighter, more convenient and more economical, so it is deeply loved by modern people.

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