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Murder She Wrote

Where would we be without a simple thing like a pen? - The first people to invent the pen as a basic tool to write were the ancient Egyptians. - On May 25, 1827, Romanian inventor Petrache Poenaru received patent from the French government for a fountain pen which had a barrel made from a large swan quill. In America in 1848, Azel Storrs Lyman got a patent for a fountain pen with “method of supplying ink to pens from a reservoir in the handle.

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