Show aarni amily ly tree ot the th e mi mighty g ty pen stylus recently di dis is covered believed to be oldest writing tool in n hebe norris of new now N in I 1 a A U D bi 11 c 1 tl I it an t trace her wf blood anch at babylon hut it bi hit i HI t might inight bo be called A pro clotill elii n linot lier a gundrid or ei ion loud hibba barcin by me I 1 lid ild prec littly the lie nine paine 1 of 1 I it 11 itches fur for a prominent achis achan n n mi th sopo tamla tamin a gr MOM I 1 mor n to thousand thou tho sanU cars beci allot I 1 bens cn boss boas his fill nil oil to haamer hat mer signal ihbe 1101 im madu in place of prisa I 1 I 1 r button li ittin illan grabbed iti I 1 tile pud pull I 1 picked up lip A im lus a in to tale take dicta IL idu isonoe aon Aluni thu building eipur pur 11 no nirad bcd albeg n the tie dictator addressing the loric oric inking firm which held the tile ire j in n hat that the tile ilithe ili ds liu hu i bield in curole 11 ll it kr for dictated allben adly uly ji it tit lit cd ell hir stylus into the tile soft ly y of lir I 1 r little pad for like all fitce sten i tunic sisters of years 1111 ell 4 an literally a pencil sher tile kailus was as a little rod liane nl at out six sit indie inches long la in cross section cut off sharply one en cat I 1 eo so hat that when u lien this end was i as ased ciny clay it loft left wedge world worlds oldest pen och wh it lone bone stylus described in die dis bes from bagdad as the oldest I 1 isu pon tins just been dug up on site of the ancient city of 0 kleh kish I 1 I 1 fles glies archeologists one of their t specimens of the tool with which priceless cuneiform tablets of polonia and assyria were made e discovery of his this stylus led the lonal geographic society in the etin quoted above to reconstruct li actual names and facts gleaned n other mother recent discoveries a scene i a business office of 40 cen ie lei ago he discovery of the bone stylus at k h the bulletin points out discloses asia ass of implements that has been re important to the development of liza illation tion than perhaps any nay other up of tools uan alto is even more truly distin t bed as a writing animal than as I 1 cakl animal continues the letin for it Is the growing fund laon ledge set down donn on various sur I 1 es by various implements and so 1 kd on to generation after genera i 1 that has made possible develop lit A in the arts sciences and indus back of the hish salus are I 1 rt re primitive members of the pen I 1 dy ily chmels to cut into stone and i ilen aen tablets thorns thorris to scratch on a e flint sp splinters with which to fur F cave walls bones and sticks with lea ich to make probably the first rude t flis rk of all la in sand or dirt in a j illel line stretch back the fewer t estora of the pencil bits of lead 1 ills of chalk and soft earths and t cods of charred sticks the descendants of the Baby lont 1 stylus and the scratching tools that 2 aided it present a startling array army J implements and in na 14 and egypt paper and papyrus e invented to supersede the cruder J heavier riling surfaces and the it at forward step was made of apply 0 A third substance ink by means I 1 1 brush or pen the tile egyptian reed made of a hollow tubular stem I 1 r be looked upon as the direct an 9 or f of the modern pen it had t uy the form of if its present day de plant being pointed and tilt silt to I 1 t it pliable if early greeks and romans how boyr f did not use any material corn com ible to paper they first scribbled P chalk on broken bits of pottery 4 watched thed with pointed metal rods bodeo blocks their next step to cover the blocks with wax and ten their messages la in that manerl 4 their styli had knobs on one end I 1 to smooth out but erroneous marks 7 wai wax could be applied and the eti t ikid 01 er and over the metal viere ere truly as mighty as swords as 01 when desired ju in lir itt IN still 11 11 to hine hale been hubbel to death ill such pin pina from flint splinter to printing press hen lien hawrus 1 reached oriece and italy llie tile red pen ien anil and lie tile ue ilse of ink went ill it this combination aul us nl al timed in writing tin oil shot enil anti fallum and in tile hand of or und and luler later monkish want ent into the making of tile ho rl I 1 a highly and hand wrought book books chiefly front tie fent tur d the ali next for improved p pun Is not of until the tile millionth ean n tury did dill detill pin point come collie into use and Oh liillie out now soll thing I 1 me three nill llon kroah of them nr fire enoc ly in ohp leittl millet alone the pt I 1 and R ld id pens unit men the tile latent latest of fountain n pin no do not the fill pen genea genealogy loLy the tb OR faron for off bit fill of f bone or hint flint ud ili 1 I ly by llie the 1 ells dumb who lie recorded did nn on un important dent ment mony thousand pur ears neo uns truly the nill ancestor of our our etching the light rays and adds acids we have liar to make our halftones half hal tones fones and anti the gigantic thunderous printing pres oies that grind rand out heir their millions nill llon of now papers magazines and books |