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History of PensMan's earliest writing may have been by using his finger as a pen with the 'ink' being plant juices or even blood. Around 4,000 BC when Man scratched the surface of moist clay tablets with a bronze or bone tool. The Romans by 1300 BC had developed this form of writing instruments where they scribed into thin sheets of wax, which could be melted and re-used.The dictionary definition of a Pen is 'a tool for writing or drawing with a coloured fluid such as ink' The early Egyptians employed thick Calamus or Bamboo reeds with split, frayed or carved ends obtaining them from Armenia, Cairo and Alexandria. Their development and use of pens paralleled with the development of Papyrus for writing on. After the fall of the Roman Empire Monks throughout Europe developed the quill as a writing instrument. Quill Pens were the writing instrument from 600 to 1800 AD and were of such writing with quill pens changed little until the mid 19th century when metallic pens and pen nibs took over although again metal nibs have very early origins in that a pen with a bronze nib was found in the ruins of Pompeii so such instruments had to be used in classical times as they pre-date 79 AD. An English engineer Bryan Donkin patented a steel pen point in 1803 but did not commercially exploit his patent and in 1830, steel makers (William Joseph Gillot, William Mitchell, James Stephen Perry) mainly in Birmingham, England developed the mass production technique for cheap long wearing steel pen nibs. Today pens come in all different shapes sizes materials and colours. Mont Blanc pens are at the most prestigious end of the market, they are manufacturers of high-class fountain pens to ball point. BIC is an obvious choice for the cheaper end of the scale, one the popular, the traditional BIC pen, the Clic Stic retractable.
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