Biography inkwell

Searching for time goes, leaving the foundations and changing the details great. Think about how much your school life is different from the times when your dad and mother were schoolchildren, and even more so - grandparents. Was there a form before schoolchildren? What did your parents write in notebooks? Was there a holiday of the last call in their time? Or here, for example: what is an ink-nonsense?

The ink-unprofitable is a special device in the inkwell, which was used in those days when both in notebooks and when filling out the receipt by mail, and at home wrote a feather pen. The main trick of the impotance is in its neck - a cone -shaped funnel directed inside the container. In such a “throat”, ink is easily poured, and in the case of an inaccurate overturning of such an inkwell, they do not spill.

But this is inadvertently. And if you shake the inkwell, then even a few drops of ink will definitely jump out of the most correct “cone”! But how not to shock, especially if you are only a week as you went to first grade? Interesting! For “impotion”, Buli needs feathers. Their device was simple: a wooden stick, a metal clamp for the pen and the feather itself: steel, spicy ...

This beautifully curved piece of metal became called “by inheritance” with a pen. In ancient times, students and scientists wrote a styl, and then for many centuries they used birds most often for this purpose - goose feathers.

They were hidden in a special way, the tip of the pen was split. Makai in the inkwell and write what you want. The sharp knives used to sharpen them were called the penkns. They are still in use, but there are no feathers left for them! And Shakespeare wrote with goose feathers, and Peter I? They were very diverse in form and the features of the letter that the writer counted on.

The steel feather was invented in the year of Johannes Jansssen. But only in the year, after almost years, one company in Germany began the mass production of such "feathers". And the “self -registration” invented over the years simply combined a pen, holder and a container for ink into one whole, without changing the principle of writing. But “self -registrations” at the school of your grandparents were allowed to write only in high school.

And in the younger ones - Makai in the inkwell! It was believed that the "self -registration" spoils the raised handwriting. Steel feathers were of different shapes and even sizes, depending on what they were intended for - letters, writing a poster, drawing, etc. The school was most loved by feathers that they wrote subtly, and in the right places, when pressure, the circuit of the letter was thickened, and it turned out beautifully.

The feathers “with an asterisk” or “th number” were best suited for this purpose, these numbers were applied to the trans. They can now be found on sale. And there were feathers of “frogs”, “springs”, etc. And also played on changes on changes, on school window sills. It was necessary to manage to press on the thick edge of the pen, so that it, having jumped up, “covers” the enemy’s pen.

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