Writing Tools History Notes Book 13
By Suzi Love
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Writing tools evolved through history from basic to decorative to innovative. So what did the lady of the house use to pen notes? What sat on the desk of the man of the house when managing his accounts? Love letters, invitations, legal documents and more criss-crossed the world and women, men, and children used especially designed implements to write when traveling.
Suzi Love
I now live in a sunny part of Australia after spending many years in developing countries in the South Pacific. My greatest loves are traveling, anywhere and everywhere, meeting crazy characters, and visiting the Australian outback.I adore history, especially the many-layered society of the late Regency to early Victorian eras. In and around London, my titled heroes and heroines may live a privileged and gay life but I also love digging deeper into the grittier and seamier levels of British life and write about the heroes and heroines who challenge traditional manners, morals, and occupations, either through necessity or desire.Tag Line- Making history fun, one year at a time
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Writing Tools History Notes Book 13 - Suzi Love
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History Of writing
Throughout history, people were incredibly inventive in finding ways to record words for others to read.
In the 23rd century BC, the Chinese made plant, animal and mineral inks and used them for painting on silk and paper so people could read stories. Greeks and Romans made ink from soot, glue and water (carbon inks).
In Ancient Egypt, scribes invented reed pens to replace styluses and writing in clay but these pens were too rigid and points didn’t last long enough so quills were made from molted flight feathers of large birds. Quills were popular in the Western world from the 6th to the 19th century until a steel nib was patented in 1803 and came into common use in the 1830s.
Chalk was used in prehistoric cave drawings and later chalk sticks were made by grinding calcium carbonate, mixing it with water, clay and pigment. Blackboard chalk became popular in the 19th century when class numbers increased and books were still too expensive for common people. Pencil lead was also invented independently in France and Australia.
In 1888, ballpoint pens came into use and in 1938, László Bíró, a Hungarian newspaper editor, with the help of his brother George, a chemist, began designing new pens, including one with a tiny ball in its tip.
So for those who still write by hand, be grateful for all these advances. For those of us who now use a computer to read or write, we can be thankful that Lady Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate child of Lord Byron, was the inventor behind Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, our first computer.
Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
Before books were mass produced, people read in various places, including in the windows of print shops and in mass reading rooms, such as the Reading Room at the British Museum. Members of the upper classes could afford to buy books or to borrow them from a circulating library.
Aren’t we lucky these days to have so many choices for reading books? We have libraries, bookstores, and numerous online retailers to feed our reading addictions and we can read books in print or on computers, eReaders, tablets and phones.
Early Writing Tools.
19th Century Ottoman Calligrapher's Tools. Paper pen knife, paper scissors, Mother-of-pearl tool.19th Century Ottoman Calligrapher's Tools. Paper pen knife, paper scissors, Mother-of-pearl