How can I know about the invention of paper and ballpoint pen( which of them was invented first?)?

Answer 1

Paper was invented first as compared to ballpoint pen.


The word paper comes from the ancient Egyptian writing material called papyrus, which was woven from papyrus plants. Papyrus was produced as early as 3000 BC in Egypt, and in ancient Greece and Rome.
In America, archaeological evidence indicates that paper was invented by the Mayas no later than the 5th century AD.[1] Called Amate, it was in widespread use among Mesoamerican cultures until the Spanish conquest. In small quantities, traditional Maya papermaking techniques are still practiced today.

A ballpoint pen, also eponymously known in British English as a biro (pronounced bye-row in Britain but sometimes bee-row elsewhere, depending on location), is a modern writing instrument. Ballpoint pens have an internal chamber filled with a viscous ink that is dispensed at the tip during use by the rolling action of a small metal sphere (0.7 mm to 1 mm in diameter); the ink dries almost immediately after contact with paper. Inexpensive, reliable and maintenance-free, they have almost completely replaced the fountain pen.
The modern ball point pen was invented in 1938 by the Argentine-Hungarian journalist László Bíró.

Answer 2

Paper was the earliest, by far. The ancient Chinese had paper, at least as far back as 1000 years ago, probably longer. That stat shouldn't be difficult to find if you enter paper invention into a search engine. As for the ball point pen, it's a relative newcomer. It became popular somewhere around the 1950s. There was a big kerfuffle when the ballpoints first came out, because kids werent allowed to use them in school because they would create 'poor handwriting habits', so while everyone else was using ballpoint pens, the kids were still stuck with pen and ink. By the 1960s, ball points were everywhere and they have all but taken over the world of handwriting. About the only people who still use nib pens are calligraphers and people who have expensive pens that they like to show off -- like bank presidents and CEOs of large corporations.


WHOOPS! The two ahead of me are perfectly correct. Somehow I forgot about Egypt. So paper is very old.
Biro invented the ball point in 1935, but it didn't come onto the popular market until the 1950s. The early ones leaked and made a terrible mess.

Answer 3

Paper was invented first (called papyrus in ancient times).

The ballpoint pen was invented by Ladislas Biro in 1935

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/story055.htm

And regarding the invention of paper, go to:

http://www.ipst.gatech.edu/amp/collection/museum_invention_paper.htm

Answer 4

Paper was invented first:

Almost 5,000 years ago, in ancient Egypt, the papyrus plant was processed and used as paper. Papyrus paper was made from thin sheets of papyrus pith that were soaked in water, pressed together with the grains at right angles, and then dried - the sticky sap of the plant made the thin sheets stick together, forming a sturdy writing surface. Papyrus (Cyperus papyrus is its genus and species) is a grass-like aquatic plant native to the Nile valley of Egypt. Our word paper comes from "papyrus."

Paper is made by grinding plant material into a pulp, forming it into thin sheets, and drying it in a form. This process was invented in AD 105 by Ts'ai Lun, a Chinese official and member of the Chinese Imperial Court, about 2000 years ago; he originally used the waste from silk production. Early Chinese paper was made from the bark of the mulberry tree and other plant fibers.

Pen:
Lewis E. Waterman was an American inventor and insurance salesman who developed a relatively leak-proof fountain pen; he patented his new invention in 1884 and revolutionized writing. Before his fountain pen, pen tips had to be tipped into ink after every few words. Waterman put an ink reservoir in the pen above the pen's metal nib (point). This reservoir would hold enough ink for a few pages of writing. There were many problems in developing the fountain pen, especially the difficulty of controlling the flow of the ink. Putting a sealed reservoir above the nib wouldn't let the ink flow, but if it wasn't sealed, all the ink would flow at once. Waterman used capillary action to replace the ink in the rubber sac with air so that the ink flowed smoothly but did not flow all at once. Also, the metals in the ink dissolved the steel pen nib, so Waterman used an iridium-plated gold nib. Waterman was also the first person to place a clip on the cap of the pen.

Answer 5

The word paper comes from the ancient Egyptian writing material called papyrus, which was woven from papyrus plants. Papyrus was produced as early as 3000 BC in Egypt, and in ancient Greece and Rome. Further north, parchment or vellum, made of processed sheepskin or calfskin, replaced papyrus, as the papyrus plant requires subtropical conditions to grow. In China, documents were ordinarily written on bamboo, making them very heavy and awkward to transport. Silk was sometimes used, but was normally too expensive to consider. Indeed, most of the above materials were rare and costly. It was brownish, gray, sometimes reddish, and even ivory in coloring because of how it was processed then. It held crinkly and was much like dried leather before it's processed.

The ballpoint pen didn't come into effect until around 1938, at least the one that we know of. Invented by Argentine-Hungarian journalist László Bíró.


I hope this was somewhat useful.
J.F.

Answer 6

László Bíró - probably to make $$$$! mutually as working as a journalist in Hungary, he observed that the ink used in newspaper printing dried at as quickly as, leaving the paper dry and smudge-loose. He tried utilising an analogous ink in a fountain pen yet discovered that it does not flow the tip, because it grew to become into too viscous. working along with his brother Georg, a chemist, he developed a clean tip which includes a ball that grew to become into loose to instruct in a socket, and because it grew to become it could %. up ink from a cartridge and then roll to deposit it on the paper. Bíró patented the discovery in Paris in 1938. In 1943 the brothers moved to Argentina and on June 10 filed yet another patent, and formed Biro Pens of Argentina. This new layout grew to become into authorized via the British, who produced ballpoint pens for Royal Air tension aircrew, who discovered they labored plenty extra useful than fountain pens at intense altitude. In 1950 Marcel Bich offered from Bíró the patent for the pen, which quickly grew to become the main substantial made of his Bic corporation.

Answer 7

obviously the ball point pen was invented last if you remember feathers were used as pens before that and they had paper

Answer 8

paper was first invented by the chinese! so paper was the first!