In 2000 BC, people in China wrote with a brush made of mouse hair. This ink is made of soot, lamp oil and gel.
BC 1200: The Egyptians extracted natural dyes and colors from berries, plants and minerals to make black water. This pen is a thin reed. 600 years later, the Egyptians invented papyrus.
AD 400: Many civilized societies invented more stable ink. It is a mixture of iron salt, oak bile and gum Arabic. This basic formula has been used for centuries.
AD 700: The Romans invented the quill pen, which uses feathers from the wings of big birds. In the later 1000 years, the quill pen became the main writing tool.
1548: Juan de Iciar, a Spanish calligrapher, mentioned bronze pens for the first time in his calligraphy manual.
1700: Nicolas Bion (a French musical instrument maker in the period of Louis XIV) first left a painting of a pen. He has five pens handed down from generation to generation.
1803: British engineer Brian Jintang obtained the patent for the first steel nib.
1809: Peggy Williamson obtained the patent for pen making for the first time in the United States, which is a fountain pen with ink in the pen tube. However, his design has many defects.
1830: British steelworkers william joseph Gillot, william mitchell and James Stephen Perry invented the method of mass production of pen tips. Due to the improvement of steel quality in the next 20 years, fewer and fewer people use quill pens.
1884: Lewis Edersen wortmann, an insurance salesman in new york, invented the first practical fountain pen after losing an important customer because the pen was broken.
1888: John Lauder of weymouth, Massachusetts, USA obtained the patent for the first ballpoint pen, but it was not mass-produced until the patent expired.
In the first decade of the 20th century, four pen manufacturers dominated the market, namely Parker, Xifeili, Will Yongfeng and Liverman.
19 12: xifeili pen co., ltd added a lever suction device to the pen tube of fountain pen. Before this, people used droppers to add ink to fountain pens.
1935: Wolman introduced the ink bag, which was a small glass tube with a cork at that time.
1938: Hungarian journalist László Bíró and his brother Georg invented the first practical ballpoint pen. It uses printing ink that can be dried quickly. The British government later allowed them to make ballpoint pens for British Air Force pilots. Ballpoint pens do not leak oil at high altitude, while fountain pens leak oil.
1945: Milton Reynolds, a Chicago businessman, redesigned Biro's invention and introduced it to the United States. At that time, Biro's invention had not been patented in the United States. Yongfeng Company, which owns Biro's invention patent, soon put their products on the market. The new fountain pen caused a sensation and sold well.
1950: French baron Marcel beach founded BIC company. His company is good at mass production of ballpoint pens. (Today, Bike Company is the largest pen-making company in the world, selling 2 1 10,000 pens every day and 7.6 billion pens a year. )
195 1 year: after the initial craze, the public found that ballpoint pens were expensive and unreliable. The sales of ballpoint pens dropped sharply, and fountain pens made a comeback.
1954: Parker Pen Company launched a "notebook" ballpoint pen. This more reliable new ballpoint pen takes five times longer to write than the most popular similar products. Sales of ballpoint pens have picked up again.
1962: Tomiiki Horie of Tokyo Stationery Company is famous for inventing felt-tip pens.
1966: Fisher invented the space pen for NASA. The ink bag of this pen is pressurized and can write in weightlessness.
1979: Gillette has introduced a new type of pen, which can erase words within 10 hour. The key is to use rubber glue as ink.
1984: Japan Sakura Company introduced neutral ink pen, which is an intermediate product of ballpoint pen and marker pen, and uses neutral pen.
1996: Pentel Company of the United States introduced "Milkys" neutral ink pen, which was deeply loved by American children.