This video contains SO MANY inaccuracies, that it is even painful to watch if you know just a bit about the history of writing and writing instruments. 1. Romans did not developed a metal stylus in 1300 BCE, because there were no Romans in 1300 BCE. Rome was founded in 753 BCE, centuries after that. And the people who inhabited the italic peninsula in the late Bronze age (mostly Nuragic and Polada peoples) were both culturally and ethnically different from Romans, as much as Americans in 2023 are different from the native peoples of 1423 (almost 70 years before Columbus) who lived in what is today America. Also, as far as I know, the late Bronze Age Italic peoples did not have writing. 2. Also, even when you correctly stated that the metal stylus developed by the Romans was for using in wax tablets (even if the date is off by six or seven centuries), the image you shows a clay table. That is deeply misleading, as, first, clay tables were not used for writing in the Italic Peninsula (too humid for that), but for writing cuneiform in Sumeria and Akkad (modern times Irak, West Iran, Kuwait and Northern Saudi Arabia), and it was done mostly with a reed stylus, not metal. 3. Although the story of the 6th century creation of quills in Seville is well distributed around the web, there are documents clearly written with quills that are over 400 years older. The Dead See Scrolls are believed to be some of those. 4. Lásló Biro did not create the first functioning ball point pen in 1943. This is false in two accounts. First, the first patent for a functioning ballpoint pen is US392046A, granted to John J. Loud on October 30th, 1888. It is correct that this patent never gave way to a commercially viable product. Also, it is incorrect that Biro created his ballpoint pen in 1943. He started working on the idea in the mid 1930's. By 1937 he had a working prototype and design, ink included. As a Jewish person in Hungary in the late 1930's, he fled first to Paris, where he patented his design in 1938, and later that same year, he moved to Argentina. Supply chain disruptions due to WWII made it difficult to start production, but it is true that it was in 1943 when he finally got his pen to the market, and it is true that the British Air Force was one of his first big clients. 5. Marcel Bich (Founder of the Bic Corporation) did not create "The Cheapest Ballpoint Pen". Biro's pens were indeed quite expensive and refillable (the ink reservoir was substantially bigger and could be refilled when needed). What Bich did was to buy Biro's patents in the US (that one was indeed granted in 1943, US2390636A), the French and the Argentinian, and knowing about materials and economy of scale, he did produce a far cheaper, disposable ballpoint. While Biro's pens costed some $150 (adjusted for inflation, about $20 at the time), when introduced, Bic's were in the $2 range (again, adjusted by inflation), and today they are really pennies. 6. Indeed, as Azimuth Avarau mentions, the felt tip pen was much older. The patent for it was filled in December 1908 by Lee Newman, and granted (US946149A) in January 1910, and mass marketed by 1923 (again, a war in the middle). I suppose that the 1962 date comes from the fact that on said year in May, Felters Company filed for a patent, granted in March 1963 (US3080600A) for a pen that had been developed in Japan, and rebranded as "Sign Pen" in 1964 by Pilot, as Lyndon Johnson used them to sign photographs. 7. The statement that multicolor retractable pens were invented in the 2000's is laughable by anyone who is over 30. I got my first one in the 1980's when I was in first grade. They were first commercialized in 1965, about the same time the patent was filed (January 1965). This pattent (US3260242A) was granted in July 1966. Even if you want to explain it to someone who is five, a bit fact checking goes a long way.
Nice video!! I subscribed as you said. And the earliest historical record of a pen with a reservoir dates back to the 10th century AD. In 953, Ma'ād al-Mu'izz, the Fatimid Caliph of Egypt, demanded a pen which would not stain his hands or clothes, and was provided with a pen which held ink in a reservoir and delivered it to the nib.
Writing was invented by the ancient Sumerians living in Mesopotamia (current Iraq) in circa 5000 BC., some 2000 years before the Egyptians “invented” writing as you state. Sumerian writing was called Cuneiform and was done by using sharpened reed pens on soft clay tablets that still exist today at notable museums. The ancient Egyptians learned writing from the Sumerians and not vice versa. Please check your attested historical sources before putting your information in writing.
Felt tip markers have been around a bit longer than the video mentions. The ones I have personal memory of using in the 1950s were called "Magic Markers." The felt tip was angled, and made a wide mark. You could get a little bit finer line with the corner tip, but not for long, because the felt would mush down after a while! They used a very aromatic ink that children would smell and go "Ahhh." Adults had to go into another room to smell them and go "Ahhh." Same thing with papers that came warm from the mimeograph machine.
"Around 3000 BC, the Egyptians would revolutionize the literary world by producing a smooth, flexible writing material that could accept and retain ink without a blur or smudge. Egyptian reed pens inside ivory and wooden palettes, the Louvre Reed pens with regular features such as a split nib have been found in Ancient Egyptian sites dating from the 4th century BC. Reed pens were used for writing on papyrus, and were the most common writing implement in antiquity. The Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia had already come upon this problem in writing and created an advanced script c. 3200 BCE in the city of Uruk. The theory that Egyptian script developed from Mesopotamian writing is most sharply challenged by this development, in fact, because if the Egyptians had learned the art of writing from the Sumerians, they would have bypassed the stage of pictograms and begun with the Sumerian creation of phonograms - symbols which represent sound. "However much Thoth had to do with giving humans their system of writing (and, to the Egyptians, 'humanity' equaled 'Egyptian'), the ancient Egyptians had to work out for themselves what this gift was and how to use it. Sometime in the latter part of the Predynastic Period in Egypt (c. 6000 - c. 3150 BCE), they began to use symbols to represent simple concepts. Egyptologist Miriam Lichtheim writes how this early script "was limited to the briefest notations designed to identify a person or a place, an event or a possession" (3). Most likely the earliest purpose writing served was in trade, to convey information about goods, prices, purchases, between one point and another. The first actual extant evidence of Egyptian writing, however, comes from tombs in the form of Offering Lists in the Early Dynastic Period." "Stylus, plural Styli, or Styluses, pointed instrument for writing and marking. The stylus was used in ancient times as a tool for writing on parchment or papyrus. The early Greeks incised letters on wax-covered boxwood tablets using a stylus made of a pointed shaft of metal, bone, or ivory. " "Reed pens are stiffer than quill pens cut from feathers and do not retain a sharp point for as long. This led to them being replaced by quills. Nevertheless, a reed pen can make bold strokes, and it remains an important tool in calligraphy."
I still have an old fountain pen that belonged to my mom she used to write with that when she was in college Now she gave me that pen it's name is hero
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This video contains SO MANY inaccuracies, that it is even painful to watch if you know just a bit about the history of writing and writing instruments.
1. Romans did not developed a metal stylus in 1300 BCE, because there were no Romans in 1300 BCE. Rome was founded in 753 BCE, centuries after that. And the people who inhabited the italic peninsula in the late Bronze age (mostly Nuragic and Polada peoples) were both culturally and ethnically different from Romans, as much as Americans in 2023 are different from the native peoples of 1423 (almost 70 years before Columbus) who lived in what is today America. Also, as far as I know, the late Bronze Age Italic peoples did not have writing.
2. Also, even when you correctly stated that the metal stylus developed by the Romans was for using in wax tablets (even if the date is off by six or seven centuries), the image you shows a clay table. That is deeply misleading, as, first, clay tables were not used for writing in the Italic Peninsula (too humid for that), but for writing cuneiform in Sumeria and Akkad (modern times Irak, West Iran, Kuwait and Northern Saudi Arabia), and it was done mostly with a reed stylus, not metal.
3. Although the story of the 6th century creation of quills in Seville is well distributed around the web, there are documents clearly written with quills that are over 400 years older. The Dead See Scrolls are believed to be some of those.
4. Lásló Biro did not create the first functioning ball point pen in 1943. This is false in two accounts. First, the first patent for a functioning ballpoint pen is US392046A, granted to John J. Loud on October 30th, 1888. It is correct that this patent never gave way to a commercially viable product. Also, it is incorrect that Biro created his ballpoint pen in 1943. He started working on the idea in the mid 1930's. By 1937 he had a working prototype and design, ink included. As a Jewish person in Hungary in the late 1930's, he fled first to Paris, where he patented his design in 1938, and later that same year, he moved to Argentina. Supply chain disruptions due to WWII made it difficult to start production, but it is true that it was in 1943 when he finally got his pen to the market, and it is true that the British Air Force was one of his first big clients.
5. Marcel Bich (Founder of the Bic Corporation) did not create "The Cheapest Ballpoint Pen". Biro's pens were indeed quite expensive and refillable (the ink reservoir was substantially bigger and could be refilled when needed). What Bich did was to buy Biro's patents in the US (that one was indeed granted in 1943, US2390636A), the French and the Argentinian, and knowing about materials and economy of scale, he did produce a far cheaper, disposable ballpoint. While Biro's pens costed some $150 (adjusted for inflation, about $20 at the time), when introduced, Bic's were in the $2 range (again, adjusted by inflation), and today they are really pennies.
6. Indeed, as Azimuth Avarau mentions, the felt tip pen was much older. The patent for it was filled in December 1908 by Lee Newman, and granted (US946149A) in January 1910, and mass marketed by 1923 (again, a war in the middle). I suppose that the 1962 date comes from the fact that on said year in May, Felters Company filed for a patent, granted in March 1963 (US3080600A) for a pen that had been developed in Japan, and rebranded as "Sign Pen" in 1964 by Pilot, as Lyndon Johnson used them to sign photographs.
7. The statement that multicolor retractable pens were invented in the 2000's is laughable by anyone who is over 30. I got my first one in the 1980's when I was in first grade. They were first commercialized in 1965, about the same time the patent was filed (January 1965). This pattent (US3260242A) was granted in July 1966.
Even if you want to explain it to someone who is five, a bit fact checking goes a long way.
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Nice video!! I subscribed as you said. And the earliest historical record of a pen with a reservoir dates back to the 10th century AD. In 953, Ma'ād al-Mu'izz, the Fatimid Caliph of Egypt, demanded a pen which would not stain his hands or clothes, and was provided with a pen which held ink in a reservoir and delivered it to the nib.
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Writing was invented by the ancient Sumerians living in Mesopotamia (current Iraq) in circa 5000 BC., some 2000 years before the Egyptians “invented” writing as you state. Sumerian writing was called Cuneiform and was done by using sharpened reed pens on soft clay tablets that still exist today at notable museums. The ancient Egyptians learned writing from the Sumerians and not vice versa. Please check your attested historical sources before putting your information in writing.
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Felt tip markers have been around a bit longer than the video mentions. The ones I have personal memory of using in the 1950s were called "Magic Markers." The felt tip was angled, and made a wide mark. You could get a little bit finer line with the corner tip, but not for long, because the felt would mush down after a while! They used a very aromatic ink that children would smell and go "Ahhh." Adults had to go into another room to smell them and go "Ahhh." Same thing with papers that came warm from the mimeograph machine.
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"Around 3000 BC, the Egyptians would revolutionize the literary world by producing a smooth, flexible
writing material that could accept and retain ink without a blur or smudge. Egyptian reed pens inside
ivory and wooden palettes, the Louvre Reed pens with regular features such as a split nib have been
found in Ancient Egyptian sites dating from the 4th century BC. Reed pens were used for writing on
papyrus, and were the most common writing implement in antiquity.
The Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia had already come upon this problem in writing and created
an advanced script c. 3200 BCE in the city of Uruk. The theory that Egyptian script developed from
Mesopotamian writing is most sharply challenged by this development, in fact, because if the
Egyptians had learned the art of writing from the Sumerians, they would have bypassed the stage
of pictograms and begun with the Sumerian creation of phonograms - symbols which represent sound.
"However much Thoth had to do with giving humans their system of writing (and, to the Egyptians,
'humanity' equaled 'Egyptian'), the ancient Egyptians had to work out for themselves what this gift
was and how to use it. Sometime in the latter part of the Predynastic Period in Egypt
(c. 6000 - c. 3150 BCE), they began to use symbols to represent simple concepts. Egyptologist
Miriam Lichtheim writes how this early script "was limited to the briefest notations designed to identify
a person or a place, an event or a possession" (3). Most likely the earliest purpose writing served was
in trade, to convey information about goods, prices, purchases, between one point and another. The
first actual extant evidence of Egyptian writing, however, comes from tombs in the form of Offering
Lists in the Early Dynastic Period."
"Stylus, plural Styli, or Styluses, pointed instrument for writing and marking. The stylus was used in
ancient times as a tool for writing on parchment or papyrus. The early Greeks incised letters on
wax-covered boxwood tablets using a stylus made of a pointed shaft of metal, bone, or ivory. "
"Reed pens are stiffer than quill pens cut from feathers and do not retain a sharp point for as long.
This led to them being replaced by quills. Nevertheless, a reed pen can make bold strokes, and it
remains an important tool in calligraphy."
I'm watching this while I'm using ballpoint and fountain pen to draw one page of my comic I'm doing right now.
I still have an old fountain pen that belonged to my mom she used to write with that when she was in college
Now she gave me that pen it's name is hero
That's sweet
Evolution of an eraser (2048 BC to 2024)
But wait, what about the gel pens and the pilot pens??
Really difficult when you don't talk to explain, I'm making notes , pause, rewind, pause rewind
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Prophet Muhammad said when the END DAY IS NEAR THER IS EVOLUTION OF PENS AND IGNORANCE DOMINATES.
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