Discover and Learn about Pen and Instrument Styles

You may not always appreciate the significance of pens in our day-to-day existence. They are frequently kept in handy locations around our homes for those last-minute scrambles for pens and paper. Additionally, they are typically printed with company logos or branding, engraved, or both. Usually, they are inexpensive plastic pens, but occasionally, a lovely metal pen that can be stored and refilled is used.

Pens were a game-changer, enabling people to write and communicate for the benefit of future generations. Written records date back thousands of years; the first known pen was used in 3200 BC. Ever wonder how we made the transition from writing with a bamboo reed pen to the modern ballpoint pen? Discover where and when the first pens were made by using our time machine.

Handwriting: What Is It?

As “recorded communication,” pictographs etched into clay or stone tablets were the first forms of writing. As an example of how humans used etchings, paintings, and markings in their surroundings long before writing was invented.
This time, we’ll examine the cave paintings and markings. For counting purposes, some of these markings were merely simple tally marks.It is possible for viewers to read the messages contained in these images.
Cuneiform, which dates back to the Sumerians more than 5000 years ago in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), is thought to be the oldest writing system ever used. According to studies, trade and commerce were sparked by an excess of food produced by agriculture, which in turn led to the need to keep track of worker wages as well as the numbers and totals of grain and other food stores. A stylus was used to etch a list of barley portions, representing farm labourers’ wages, onto the Jemdet Nasr Tablet, which dates from 3000–2900 BC. Reed was primarily used to make styluses.