pens & pencils

At school over 100 hundred years ago students learnt how to write on slate boards and with slate pens if you don't know what a slate board is (it is a board that is made out of a special type of rock that you could write on and then rub it off with a rag. And after a couple of months the kids started to write with pens and paper because paper was very expensive back then.











And the teachers write on blackboards with chalk and the older students used dip pens and it was made of a wood for the handle and a metal tip to dip into the ink and they had to dip it every few words to get some more ink on it but they didn’t dip it too much on because it would drip on the paper and that wouldn’t be good. The desks had a hole in the top right corner and the inkwell would sit in it and then the kids would have to fill them daily from an ink bottle and people still use a pen with a nib because it makes your writing look beautiful. By the 1930s kids were using fountain pens this pen had a tube in the pen for the ink to fill the tube they had to lift up a lever on the side of a pen.







Then they would put the nib in the ink and closed the lever and there would be a hole in the nib and that would feed ink to the tube. Now we use ball point pens it still uses a tube of ink in the center and there is a tiny ball at the tip of the pen and when you move the pen it moves the ball and the ball has ink all over it and it goes over the paper leaving a trail in the oder were you put it. I would rather use the ball point because it is the easiest to use because you don’t have the ink dripping and you don’t have to dip it and it is a not a very complex pen to use.


so here is the history o pens & pencils and it is pretty interesting to know the history and how the old pencils worked and some were very complex and some were very easy to use.