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A Brief History of Writing Instruments

Ancient writing instruments - From left to right: quills, bamboo, pen sharpeners, fountain pens, pencils, brushes.

papyrus and parchment papers

 

Lewis Waterman pen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lewis Waterman Pens Illustration: Lewis Waterman Pens

 

Printing

Prining - First Book Printed in the West

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Typing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                            

Photography

First American Daguerreotype


 Confederate dead from one of Stephen D.Lee's batteries lying east of the Dunker Church, Antietam, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, September, 1862. (National Park photograph of Confederate dead from one of Stephen D. Lee's batteries lying east of the Dunker Church, Antietam, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 1862.Service Historic Photograph Collection. Alexander Gardner, 1862)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

photograph of Mount of Holy Cross, near Leadville, Colorado
 Mount of the Holy Cross, near Leadville, Colorado. (National Park Service Historic Photograph Collection. William Henry Jackson, 1874)

 

photograph of The General Post Office, Washington, D.C.
The General Post Office Washington, D.C., 1839, designed by architect Robert Mills. This photo is a copy of a daguerréotype of the building taken in 1846 by John Plumbe. (Library of Congress Daguerréotype Collection)

 

photograph of a typical field set-up of the Civil War era
 Taken near Savannah, Georgia this photograph shows a typical field set-up of the Civil War era. The wagon carried chemicals, glass plates, and negatives. The buggy to the left could be used as a field darkroom. Before a reliable, dry-plate process was invented (ca. 1879) photographers had to develop negatives quickly before the emulsion dried. (Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Telephone

 

 

 

 

Alexander Graham BellAlexander Graham Bell

 

Model of Alexander Graham Bell's Telephone

 

Telegraphy

Illustration: Electric Telegraph Circuit Board

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Samuel Finley Breese Morse - Self-PortraitPainting: Self Portrait by Samuel Morse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Radio

Guglielmo MarconiGuglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communication.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answering Machine

Valdemar Poulsen's Telegraphone