All about Pen

Hundreds of years ago there were no pens. People would sharpen the thin, hollow sticks of bamboos or use a bird's feather as a pen by filling them with vegetable dyes. In 1809, Joseph Braham made a holder and invented the world's first nib with a feather. Later he improved these nibs by using horns and tortoise shells. In 1822, he received the patent for these nibs. These nibs were fixed in the holder and each time one had to dip them in ink before writing a few words. Although fountain pens had been given a patent in England in 1809, they did not become popular because their ink leaked badly.
It was in 1884, almost 75 years later, that L. E. Waterman made fountain pens with a small tank to hold the ink. The in would flow from this tank to the nib slowly and id did not leak either. These pens were an instant success. After the industrial revolution in 1828, steel pens came into existence. John Mitchell of Birmingham was the first person to make these pens with a machine. It took anotehr hundred years before these pens could be fitted with a stell nib too. In 1926, total stell pens conquered the market and since 1930, detachable nibs increased the life of a pen.