The quill pen was the writing instrument of Colonial America. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence on his famous lap desk using a quill. The Constitution of the United States wa… ...

Quill pens were replaced with the invention of the dip pen, the metal-nib pen, the fountain pen and eventually the ball point pen. Image caption, Nicolas-Jacques Conté: painter, balloonist, army ...

From Quill To Stylus, The Evolution Of The Pen. Skip to Main Content. ... Meanwhile, styluses crafted from reeds were first used by the ancient Mesopotamians to ‘write’ on clay tablets.

“Fake Moleskine Notebooks” has developed into an entire gadget case category, although ironically Moleskine’s own effort is quite awful. The idea is that you cover your new-fangled tablet or ...

A quill pen. It's a goose feather I've carved with a straight razor into a sharp point and dipped in ink. I’m doing this because I spent a year trying to live like the Founding Fathers .

The number of quill pens that were produced in the early 19th century were astounding. Germany used 50 million quill pens per year. In 1832, England was importing 36.6 million quills from abroad ...

Quill pens were generally made from the five outer feathers of a goose or swan’s wing. The end of the feather was shaped to a point, with the hollow shaft of the feather serving as an ink reservoir ...