History Of Bullet Journaling
Bullet journaling may not have the longest most interesting history, but writing and art does; and guess what? Bullet Journaling definitely counts as art. On the web I found this website that had a really informative article about the history of writing. Click here for the whole article or read it below. http://www.historyofpencils.com/writing-instruments-history/history-of-writing-implements/.
Writing is one of the most important inventions of humanity. It has allowed us to record our history, ideas, and discoveries and spread them across the world for every one to know.
The first pens weren't pigmented to live mark on the surface but rigid so that they could engrave text on different materials.
The Chinese carved on Turtle shells, and the Ancient Sumerians and Babylonians used triangular stylus to write on soft clay tablets which were later backed. Romans wrote on wax tablets with styluses that allowed them to erase written text. But all these methods had there dis-advantages. Clay tablets were heavy and brittle, Wax tablets were not heat resistant. Because of that people tried to find other sullutions.
Scribes in Ancient Egypt used reed pens which were made from a single reed straw, and cut into a point. Reed pens were usually written on papyrus. But reed pens didn't last long and were too stiff. They were soon replaced with quills. Quills were made of are the flight feathers of large birds. ink flows to the tip which is cut into a shaft by capillary action. Quill were used to write on materials like parchment and vellum.
In the 17th Century writing became more popular, so quills were improved to be more flexible and have a cut point.
Some hundred of year earlier Graphite was discovered in England which meant the birth of pencils! They had no ink and instead had a core of solid pigment. They used to be covered in leather, but later covered in a thin wooden cylinder like the ones we have today. They were popular because they were easy to use, didn't spill ink, and could easily be erased if a mistake was made.
The popularity of quills lasted until the 19th century when the first pens with metal nibs appeared. There were earlier tries of metal nibs, but none caught on.
John Mitchell From Birmingham was the first to mass produce pens with metal nibs in 1822. These had handles and metal points which were split in half that held a small amount of ink every time it was dipped. They worked the same as quills but lasted a lot longer, didn't need to be sharpened and had a much finer point.
Bartholomeow Folsch received a patient in England for a pen with a ink reservoir in 1809.
The French Government patented a fountain pen in May 1827 which was invented by Petrache Poenaru from Rome.
The Ballpoint pen was invented 1888 by John J, then improved by Laszlo Biro in 1938.
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala invented the Mechanical pencil in 1906 and the first solid ink fountain pen in 1907.
The felt tipped pen was a predecessor of markers and highlighters was invented in Japan by Yukio Horie.
The Roller ball pen which has water based ink was also invented in Japan, 1963.
porous point pens have points made from porous metals such as felt or ceramic , were invented 1990.
Now a days we still use pens and pencils, but we also use Styluses. Except we only use those on touch screens.
So there you go, a bunch of information about the earlier writing utensils, is that enough? Guess what?! We use all those different writing tools to bullet journal (except for the styluses, you can't journal with a touch pen!).
