Loud's pen had a small rotating steel ball, held in place by a socket.

In these inventions, the ink was placed in a thin tube whose end was blocked by a tiny ball, held so that it could not slip into the tube or fall out of the pen.

Depending on gravity caused difficulties with the flow and required that the pen be held nearly vertically.

The reservoir pen, which may have been the first fountain pen, dates back to 953, when Ma ' ād al-Mu ' izz, the caliph of Egypt, demanded a pen that would not stain his hands or clothes, and was provided with a pen that held ink in a reservoir.

A graphics tablet or digitizing tablet is a special tablet similar to a touchpad, but controlled with a pen or stylus that is held and used like a normal pen or pencil.

With only this, and without access to the Stratemeyer Syndicate archives now held at the New York Public Library, the public presumed that she had a primary authorship claim to the Nancy Drew stories and pen name, Carolyn Keene, who also " wrote " the Dana Girls series.

In 953, Ma ' ād al-Mu ' izz, the caliph of the Maghreb, demanded a pen that would not stain his hands or clothes, and was provided with a pen that held ink in a reservoir and delivered it to the nib, which could be held upside-down without leaking, as recorded in Kitab al-Majalis wa ' l-musayardt, by Qadi al-Nu ' man al-Tamimi ( d. 974 ).

Polygraphs are mechanical devices that move a second pen parallel to one held by a writer, enabling the writer to make a duplicate of a document as it is written.

The decorative elements in the script never interfere with the basic structure of the letter-forms ; they arise naturally from the slanted angle at which the pen was held ".

* Abu Bakr ibn Abi Dawood Said: " Ahmad ibn Hanbal is Superior to every person whoever held a pen and inkwell ( i. e. in his time )

Ten years later the Supreme Court held that a pen register is not a search because the " petitioner voluntarily conveyed numerical information to the telephone company.

The ruling held that only the content of a conversation should receive full constitutional protection under the right to privacy, since pen registers do not intercept conversation, they do not pose as much threat to this right.

Slaves from the area were transported from Dover, Kentucky to slave markets in Natchez, Mississippi and New Orleans, Louisiana ; they were held in his pen for a few days or several months, as he and other traders waited for favorable market conditions and higher selling prices.

The first names of some of the slaves believed to have been held in the pen are listed on a wooden slab in the pen's interior ; they were documented in records kept by slave traders who used the pen.

A scribe records on smoked foil while a pen records on paper using ink, held in a knib.

Notable citizens originating from Narrandera include the Governor of New South Wales Marie Bashir ; Australian Rules footballer, Tim Ruffles, who plays for the Fremantle Football Club ; Daniel Christian ( Australian Cricketer ); Prima ballerina Kathleen Gorham ; and Patrick Hartigan ( a Catholic priest, poet and author who used the pen name, " John O ' Brien "): the bush ethos celebrated by Hartigan in his writings is commemorated in the annual John O ' Brien Bush Festival held in the town.

Once her trembling hand, with the pen grasped tight in it, was pressed against the paper the words came sharply, smoothly, as authoritatively as they would dropping from her own lips.

An Ohio soldier who, from a comrade just returned from leave, received an unfavorable comment on the conduct of his sister, took pen in hand and delivered himself thus: `` dear Sis.

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.

The GEICO company has created a series of television ads that are built around proverbs, such as " A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ": and " The pen is mightier than the sword "

A player starts by putting the point of a pen ( or pencil ) on the starting marker, placing their palm on top of it, and pushing it only using the palm of their hand.

On the other hand, written and printer paper do not require ( the weight and volume of ) reading equipment, and handwritten edits only require simple writing equipment, such as a pen.

Bitmap editors are more suitable for retouching, photo processing, photorealistic illustrations, collage, and illustrations drawn by hand with a pen tablet.

He holds a quill pen in his right hand, and is turning the pages of a large book with the other hand.

This shot-logging process was traditionally done by hand using pen and paper, but is now typically done using shot-logging software running on a laptop computer that is connected to the time code generator or the camera itself.

His right arm was paralyzed ; Dole often carried a pen in his right hand to signal that he could not shake hands with that arm.

Where hand stamps were not available, stamps often were cancelled by marking over the stamp with pen, such as writing an " x ".

Today, early United States pen cancelled stamps still are worth considerably less than examples with hand stamped cancels.

Holding the pen and guiding it across paper depends mostly upon sensory information from skin, joints and muscles of the hand and this adjusts movement to changes in the friction between pen and paper.

Research in individuals with complete peripheral deafferentation with and without vision of their writing hand finds increase of number of pen touches, increase in number of inversions in velocity, decrease of mean stroke frequency and longer writing movement duration.

He is seated at a table with a pen in one hand and a scroll in the other.

Samuel Johnson wrote: " Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation ; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties ".

A Heathrow Express single ticket with a 16-25 Railcard Discount, cancelled by hand using a ball-point pen.

For example, people often develop calluses on the middle finger of their dominant hand due to writing with a pen or pencil.

The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica says of him that at his death in London at age 51 " he died ... as he had lived, in great poverty, in the midst of his books, with his pen in his hand.

The scribe with his pen was synonymous to the hour hand of a modern clock.

It should also be noted that Wozniak did not have any software development tools for the 6502 processor other than an assembly language reference manual, and instead wrote out the software with pen and paper and then hand assembled the instructions into 4096 bytes of raw machine code for the 6502 .< ref >

As he called it, it was " rich extempore writing, talking with pen in hand ".

`` 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.

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 '.