Traditionally, cartoonists often used a Winsor & Newton # 3, Series 7 brush in combination with a crowquill pen.

`` It would be a disgrace, and, as I have already said to the people of Tennessee, if Hearst is nominated, we may as well pen a dispatch, and send it back from the field of battle: ' All is lost, including our honor ' ''.

Alan of Lille was not the author of a Memoriale rerum difficilium, published under his name, nor of Moralium dogma philosophorum, nor of the satirical Apocalypse of Golias once attributed to him ; and it is exceedingly doubtful whether the Dicta Alani de lapide philosophico really issued from his pen.

Another difference between oil and acrylic paints is the versatility offered by acrylic paints-acrylic is very useful in mixed media, allowing use of pastel ( oil & chalk ), charcoal, pen, etc.

Indeed, Disraeli had objected to Murray about Croker inserting " high Tory " sentiment, writing that " it is quite impossible that anything adverse to the general measure of Reform can issue from my pen.

A ballpoint pen ( Philippine English: ballpen, British English: biro ) is a writing instrument, with an internal ink reservoir and a sphere for a point.

The pen was sold in Argentina under the Birome brand ( portmanteau of Bíró and Meyne ), which is how ballpoint pens are still known in that country.

The simplest types of ball point pens have a cap to cover the tip when the pen is not in use, while others have a mechanism for retracting the tip.

This mechanism is usually controlled by a button at the top and powered by a spring within the pen body, but other possibilities include a pair of buttons, a screw, or a slide.

Ballpoint pens are often provided free by businesses as a form of advertising — printed with a company's name ; a ballpoint pen is a relatively low cost advertisement that is highly effective ( customers will use, and therefore see, a pen daily ).

The history of computing is longer than the history of computing hardware and modern computing technology and includes the history of methods intended for pen and paper or for chalk and slate, with or without the aid of tables.

It is possible to create a secure pen and paper cipher based on a one-time pad though, but the usual disadvantages of one-time pads apply.

A plotter is a vector graphics printing device which operates by moving a pen over the surface of paper.

Although not illustrated, it is richly decorated with pen flourished initials, and great care has been taken over its construction.

Smith's most celebrated short story is his first-published, " Scanners Live in Vain ", which led many of its earliest readers to assume that " Cordwainer Smith " was a new pen name for one of the established giants of the genre.

Defoe is known to have used at least 198 pen names.

A string tied at each end to the two pins and the tip of a pen is used to pull the loop taut so as to form a triangle.

The tip of the pen will then trace an ellipse if it is moved while keeping the string taut.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot | Lightfoot notes with respect to verse 6: 11 that at this point " the apostle takes the pen from his amanuensis, and the concluding paragraph is written with his own hand ".

" At this point the apostle takes the pen from his amanuensis, and the concluding paragraph is written with his own hand.

Harvey's dedication to Oxford is a double-edged criticism, praising his English and Latin verse and prose, yet advising him to ' put away your feeble pen, your bloodless books, your impractical writings '.

At least eleven novels were published in the CrimeBusters series, which was launched by one of the series ' favorite authors, William Arden, pseudonym of Dennis Lynds, who wrote the Dan Fortune mystery series for adults under the pen name of Michael Collins.

The first patent on a ballpoint pen was issued on 30 October 1888, to John Loud, a leather tanner, who was attempting to make a writing instrument that would be able to write on his leather products, which then-common fountain pens could not do.

Pen plotters print by moving a pen or other instrument across the surface of a piece of paper.

However, it was only after three key inventions were in place that the fountain pen became a widely popular writing instrument.

Fountain pens may serve as an everyday writing instrument, much like the common ballpoint pen.

Taking as his first weapon the instrument with which he was most familiar, the pen, he wrote and had published his first " grook " in Danish.

If the two meanings are unrelated, as in the word pen meaning both writing instrument and enclosure, they are considered homonyms.

In Newhall Street, John Mitchell pioneered mass production of steel pens in 1822 ; prior to that the quill pen had been the most common form of writing instrument.

* October 3-The first patent for a ballpoint pen is granted to John Loud, a British tanner who wishes to produce a writing instrument that can write on leather.

such a register as consisting of a lever holding an armature on one end, opposite an electromagnet, with a fountain pen, pencil or other marking instrument on the other end, and a clockwork mechanism to advance a paper recording tape under the marker.

With the passage of time, any instrument that could be used for this purpose came to be defined as a pen register.

Pen spinning ( also known as contact juggling, pen twirling, pen mawashi and pen tricks ) is a form of object manipulation that involves the deft manipulation of a writing instrument with one's hands.

From the 1920s to the 1960s, before the development of the ballpoint pen, Parker was either number one or number two in worldwide writing instrument sales.

A pen is a writing instrument which applies ink to a surface, usually paper.

Through communication by morse code, Dr Holland guided Tuckett through two rather messy bladder operations utilising the only sharp instrument available, a pen knife.

The traditional instrument of the Arabic calligrapher is the qalam, a pen made of dried reed ; the ink is often in color, and chosen such that its intensity can vary greatly, so that the greater strokes of the compositions can be very dynamic in their effect.

The hole can be made with any sharp object ( usually a key, bottle opener, pen, knife, other sharp instrument, or possibly teeth or a thumb with enough experience ).

Recognized methods for causing the pain stimulus include a Sternal rub ( although in some areas, it is no longer deemed acceptable ), where the rescuers knuckles are firmly rubbed on the breastbone of the patient, pinching the patient's ear and pressing a pen ( or similar instrument ) in to the bed of the patient's fingernail.

Instruments with pneumatic, mechanical, or electromechanical amplifiers decoupled pen movement from process measurement, greatly increasing the sensitivity of the instrument and the flexibility of the recorder.

In the special case of a perfectly vertical orientation of the writing instrument the axial pen force

* Fountain pen, writing instrument

In Newhall Street, John Mitchell manufactured pens ; he pioneered mass production of steel pens ( prior to this, the quill pen was the most common form of writing instrument ).