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The name Wacom came from an abbreviated variation of World Computer (Japanese: ワールドコンピュータ, wārudo konpyūtā), with the syllable "wa" (和, Japanese for "harmony"). [4] Wacom was the first company to make pens without a cord, which it introduced in 1991; [6] [7] it released its first pen display the following year. [8]
Additional types of specialized pens are used in specific types of applications and environments such as in artwork, electronics, digital scanning and spaceflight, and computing. The following is a list of pen types, brands and/or manufacturing companies of those writing implements. Related items are listed as well.
NIB supplied the government with 70 million ballpoint pens a year by 1969. [23] These pens have requirements, including the ability to "write continuously for a mile and in temperatures up to 160 degrees and down to 40 degrees below zero." [22] The ballpoint pen contract helped create jobs for 125 new workers with disabilities. [24]
S Pen (Korean: S펜) is a wireless digital pen stylus designed and developed by Samsung Electronics featuring Wacom's digital pen technology. It is made for use (and often bundled) with supported Galaxy mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, as well as selected Samsung Notebook , Galaxy Book , and Chromebook notebooks.
I have checked on Wacom's American site and they only list the Create, Capture and Connect tablets as being available (), which supports my "currently available" hypothesis; however, they do also mention the Bamboo Pen (an iPad stylus) and the Bamboo Paper iPad App. I was unable to check the EU site though; it appears to be down at the moment.
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.
A diagram of a typical pointed nib Quill pen and ink bottle. A nib is the part of a quill, dip pen, fountain pen, ball point, or stylus which comes into contact with the writing surface in order to deposit ink. Different types of nibs vary in their purpose, shape and size, as well as the material from which they are made.
A fountain pen is a writing instrument that uses a metal nib to apply water-based ink, or special pigment ink—suitable for fountain pens—to paper.It is distinguished from earlier dip pens by using an internal reservoir to hold ink, eliminating the need to repeatedly dip the pen in an inkwell during use.