Your ShelfYour Projects

The Invention of Steel Pens

50%

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 12, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 24.

Read the full edition

The Invention of Steel Pens

It is said that “a working jeweler in Birmingham, England, Joseph Gillott, accidentally split one of his fine steel tools, and, being suddenly called on to sign a receipt, used the split tool as a substitute for a mislaid pen. This led to making pens of metal.”