Ride the Storm: Navigating Through Unstable Periods / Katerina Rudko (Belka G...
Quills were used for writing with ink before the invention of the dip pen
1. Now I’m going to tell you about the past
Quills were used for writing with ink before the invention
of the dip pen, the metal-nibble pen, the fountain pen, and,
eventually, the ballpoint pen. The hand-cut goose quill is
still used as a calligraphy tool, however rarely because
many papers are now derived from wood pulp and wear
down the quill very quickly. It is still the tool of
choice for a few professionals and provides an
unmatched sharp stroke as well as greater
flexibility than a steel pen.
Now I’m going to tell you the today pen that we use. They are a
big different. We can push it on in off. The origin of the
retractable pen is controversial. The Frawley Pen Company,
founded in 1949 by Patrick J. Frawley, has claimed to make the
"first pen with a retractable ballpoint tip" in 1950. However it
has also been claimed that in Japan, the Pilot Pen was introduced
as the first retractable fountain pen, and remains a popular
product in the Pilot-Namiki line. The Vanishing Pens, made by
the Namiki Manufacturing Company from 1964, claim to be the
"only click-retractable fountain pen in the business”.
2. Now I’m going to tell you about the
future pens. Find yourself hankering
for a little snack during the middle of
school day? Wishing you just had a
little something to tide you over until
dinner? How about a pen? While you’ve probably already
considered gnawing on your writing utensil, or perhaps you
already possess an array of half-masticated pens (guilty!), what
would you say to a fully functioning pen made out of candy?
Heck yes! And you can thank kaneisha fielder, a design student
from the tacs such a brilliant product. While lamenting the
unclean state of my own writing apparatus, fielder set out to
design a pen worth chewing on. My pens consist of twenty-two
pieces of chewy candy pieces in a range of flavours like
watermelon, kiwi and banana. The candy doesn’t stick or melt in
your hands (think of it as a stack of those rocket candies popular
at Halloween) and the ink itself is even edible. The candy used
to make the pen is rather like that used in candy
necklaces. Call now 215, 629, 6713