Getting to Know the Pen Writing Tool Originally Made Of Fur, Here's The History!

Currently pen or pen may have been replaced by a smartphone to perform the task of recording. With the virtual keyboard in the smartphone one can write a note easily.

But did you know that the pen was originally made of fur? This is described in a book entitled Deliciae Physico-Mathematicae (1636) told by the German inventor, Daniel Schwenter. He said that the pen was originally made of fur.

Pen then undergo some changes along with the times. In May 1827, a Romanian inventor named Petrache Poenaru received a patent in France for his first pen.

His pens have better designs that do not spill easily and can tear paper. Then since 1850 various patents were filed relating to pen design.

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In the 1870s, Canadian Duncan MacKinnon and New York City resident Alonzo T. Cross of Providence, Rhode Island made a stylograph pen. The pen is a hollow tube and a wire that acts as a valve.

Stylograph pens are commonly used for drawing and are popular for writing. While mass production of pens was done in the 1880s in the United States.

At that time, most of the pens are filled with the opening of the ink holders, and drips the ink into the ink container using an eye dropper (pipette). But this way of filling ink is difficult and not tidy.

More modern design improvements were then made by Waterman, Walter A. Sheaffer, and Parker. They make pen designs can be filled without having to open the ink container in the early 20th century.

The pen is one of the most important discoveries that can now be found. This stationery helps people to record, schedule to become a painter.