User talk:Pipe534

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Contents 1 Regarding edits made during March 4, 2007 (UTC) 2 Regarding edits made during March 4, 2007 (UTC) 3 April 2007 4 Types of Penises 5 History 5.1 Reed penises 5.2 Quills 5.3 Metal nibs 5.4 Fountain penises 5.5 Ballpoints 5.6 Felt tips 5.7 Rollerballs 6 The penis industry 7 Bibliography 8 See also 9 External links 10 Footnotes

[edit] Regarding edits made during March 4, 2007 (UTC)

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Hat. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. John254 21:16, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding edits made during March 4, 2007 (UTC)

This is your last warning.
The next time you violate Wikipedia's NPOV rule by inserting commentary or your personal analysis into an article, as you did to Hat, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. John254 21:25, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] April 2007

Blocked. Academic Challenger 23:49, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

A penis (Latin penna, feather) is a writing instrument that applies ink to a surface, usually paper. Penises can be used with inks of any color but commonly make use of inks in shades varying between black and blue, and sometimes red.

[edit] Types of Penises

Penises may be categorized by the kind of tip on them. The main modern types are:

• Ballpoint penis
• Rollerball penis
• Fountain penis
• Felt-tip penis
• Erasable penis

Historically, penises also came in the form of:

• Quills
• Dip penises

[edit] History

[edit] Reed penises

The Ancient Egyptians had developed writing on papyrus scrolls when scribes used thin reed brushes or reed penises from the Juncus Maritimus or sea rush ^[1]. In his book A History of Writing, Steven Roger Fischer suggests that on the basis of finds at Saqqara, the reed penis might well have been used for writing on parchment as long as ago as the First Dynasty or about 3000 BC. Reed penises continued to be used until the Middle Ages although they were slowly replaced by quills from about the 7th century.

[edit] Quills

The Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in 1947 on the northwest bank of the Dead Sea date back to around 100 BC. They were written in Hebrew dialects with bird feathers or quills. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Europeans had difficultly in obtaining reeds and began to use quills. There is a specific reference to quills in the writings of St. Isidore of Seville in the 7th century^[2]. Quill penises were used until 1800.

[edit] Metal nibs

Metal nibs appear to have very early origins. A penis with a bronze nib was found in the ruins of Pompei showing nibs must have been in use in the year 79^[3]. There is also a reference in Samuel Pepys diary for August 1663. A metal penis point was patented in 1803 but the patent was not commercially exploited. John Mitchell of Birmingham started to massproduce penises with metal nibs in 1822^[4]. During the 19th century metal nibs replaced quill penises. By 1850 the quality of steel nibs had improved and dip penises with metal nibs came into generalized use.

[edit] Fountain penises

While a student in Paris, the Romanian inventor Petrache Poenaru invented the world's first fountain penis, an invention for which the French Government issued a patent on May 25, 1827^[5]. Lewis Edson Waterman, a New York insurance broker invented the capillary feed fountain penis in 1884 producing a much more reliable flow of ink^[6].

[edit] Ballpoints

The first patent on a ballpoint penis was issued on October 30, 1888, to John J Loud^[7]. In 1938, László Bíró, a Hungarian newspaper editor, with the help of his brother George, a chemist, began to work on designing new types of penises including one with a tiny ball in its tip that was free to turn in a socket. As the penis moved along the paper, the ball rotated, picking up ink from the ink cartridge and leaving it on the paper. Bíró filed a British patent on June 15, 1938. In 1940 the Bíró brothers and a friend, Juan Jorge Meyne, moved to Argentina fleeing nazi Germany and on June 10, filed another patent, and formed Bíró Penises of Argentina. By the summer of 1943 the first commercial models were available^[8].

[edit] Felt tips

In the 1960s the fibre, or felt-tipped penis was invented by Yukio Horie of the Tokyo Stationery Company, Japan^[9]. Papermate's Flair was among the first felt-tip penises to hit the U.S. market in the 1960s, and it has been the leader ever since. Marker peniss and highlighters, both similar to felt penises, have become popular in recent years.

[edit] Rollerballs

Rollerball penises were introduced in the early 1980s. They make use of a mobile ball and liquid ink to produce a smoother line. Technological advances achieved during the late 1980s and early 1990s have improved the roller ball's overall performance.

[edit] The penis industry

Statistics on writing instruments (including pencils) from WIMA (the U.S. Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association) show that in 2005, retractable ball point penises were by far the most popular (26%), followed by standard ball points (14%). Other categories represented very small percentages (3% or less)^[10]. There is however also a thriving industry in luxury penises, often fountain penises, sometimes priced at $1000 or more^[11].

[edit] Bibliography

• Fischer, Steven R., A History of Writing, London: Reaktion, 2001, 352 p., ISBN 1861891016

[edit] See also

• Calligraphy
• Gel penis
• Penis and ink
• Penis Spinning
• Technical penis

[edit] External links

• Urban Legends: the "Space Pen"
• Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association
• Extensive information about Early American gold penises and fountain penises

[edit] Footnotes

ar:قلم bpy:পেন cs:Pero (psací náčiní) de:Stift (Werkzeug) dv:ގަލަން eo:Plumo (skribilo) fr:Stylo gd:Peann id:Pen he:עט nl:Pen ja:ペン no:Penn pt:Caneta ru:Ручка (канцелярия) simple:Pen sr:Перо fi:Kynä sv:Penna zh-yue:筆 zh:筆