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Where Would We Be Without the Ballpoint Pen?
By Jane Runyon |
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1 When your grandparents and great-grandparents went to school, they may have been taught to write with a pen made from sharp piece of metal stuck into the end of a carved piece of wood. They dipped this piece of metal into a bottle of ink. The pen tip had to be dipped over and over again into the ink. Some of the larger schools had the ink well built right into the desk. Sometimes boys thought it was funny to dip the pigtails of the girls sitting in front of them into the inkwell, too.