| Show typewriter IN FIRST PLACE was actually invented before anyon had thought about the modern steel pen long ago when romans and grecki wished to write they used wax was tablet instead of paper which they anci nothing about and their pen was called a stylus tile the stylus Is a penell pencil made of iron or other metal sharr share at one end and blunt at the ather the th sharp end was used to scratch UK surface of the wax and the blunt end was used as an eraser if you had lived la in olden times in ili egypt probably you would have used skins on which to write your letters at a later time papyrus or a certain kind of leaf was used the ink was wag simply black paint thinned out ami an the pen was a brush by and by jonm boing forgotten genius tried a reed was used instead our great grandfathers used quill for pens goose quills were gostl u aed ed and quills of crows feat feathera heri wore were for fine writing we have to go back only to 1820 to see the manufacture of the first steel pens liens they were made in london and in the form of a tube but now they are rolled out of fine steel it is it curious fact that the type writer which has so largely taken tho place of the pen actually was invented before the steel pen As early as a the year 1717 a typewriter was patented in england but it was not until that a practical machine was waa made |
