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Since the 18th century, hundreds of angling authors have adopted pseudonyms for their books, for their contributions to journals and the popular press. [1] Pen names for angling authors were most common in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This is a list of pseudonyms used by notable angling authors. Entries are listed by pen name, real ...
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
A dip pen has a steel nib (the pen proper) and a pen-holder. Dip pens are very versatile, as the pen-holder can accommodate a wide variety of nibs that are specialized for different purposes: copperplate writing, mapping pens, and five-pointed nibs for drawing music staves. They can be used with most types of ink, some of which are incompatible ...
The Birmingham pen trade evolved in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter and its surrounding area in the 19th century. "Pen" is the old term for what is now generally referred to as a nib, and for over a century the city was the world's leading manufacturer of steel nibs for dip pens , also making nibs in brass, bronze, and other alloys.
The oblique dip pen was designed for writing the pointed pen styles of the mid 19th to the early 20th century such as Spencerian Script, although oblique pen holders can be used for earlier styles of pointed penmanship such as the copperplate scripts of the 18th and 19th centuries. As the name suggests, the nib holder holds the nib at an ...
Johann Theodor de Bry En (later in Germany, also publisher); Jan Van Calcar Wo; Hieronymus Cock En, Et, Publisher; Hans Collaert En, son of Adriaen; Cornelis Cort En; Philippe Galle En, Publisher, and his heirs, including Adriaen Collaert.
William B. Purvis (12 August 1838 – 10 August 1914) [1] was an African-American inventor and businessman who received multiple patents in the late 19th-century. His inventions included improvements on paper bags, an updated fountain pen design, improvement to the hand stamp, and a close-conduit electric railway system.
1 Before the 19th century. 2 19th century. 3 1900. 4 1901. 5 1902. 6 1903. 7 1904. 8 1905. ... pusher biplane (Henri Farman) ... (Initial name of the Rumpler Taube)