| If you think you know all you need to know about | | | | that rolls away dispensing the ink over onto the |
| pens, then listen to this. Did you know that there are | | | | writing paper. The ink does not take long to dry and |
| many different types of pens in the market today? | | | | this just makes the pen even more popular. |
| Some are named on the basis of the kind of tips | | | | Over the years, other similar versions of the ballpoint |
| they have while some others are given names | | | | pen have appeared. For example in 1907, 1910 and |
| depending on the material they are made of. For | | | | 1916, there appeared new pens but the problem with |
| example the feather pens are actually nothing more | | | | them is that they could not spread the ink evenly |
| than a feather whose featherless tip is used as the | | | | over the paper. The metallic sphere came with its |
| writing end after dipping it in ink. The word pen is | | | | own share of problems; it was either too large, |
| derived from a Latin name 'Penna', which means | | | | making the ink leak, or it was too tight, making it |
| feather. | | | | block the smooth flow of the ink. |
| Let us take a look at the ballpoint pens. They were | | | | Today, a lot of research has been done on how to |
| discovered by Bmrs Laszls Jszsef Biro in the 19th | | | | go about making effective ballpoint pens. Problems |
| century, but the first pen was patented by John J. | | | | associated with leaking have been eliminated after |
| Loud on October 20 1888. The pens are made in | | | | pioneers like Lazro Biro and his brother came up with |
| such a way that they have a reservoir filled with ink | | | | creative ideas. |
| of high velocity. There is also a small metallic sphere | | | | |