this looks pretty serious little sister is really giving her all and she has good reason to be serious because she thinks she's writing well she is writing using one of the earliest forms of writing known to man to express something she has on her mind writing is an important art and that this little girl and millions of other small children expect to be successful when they grow up they have to learn to write clearly and rapidly and this is the first step little sister is making a very hard job of it because this is hard work for her would be hard work for all of us if we had to think consciously as little children do of every move our hand in our make as we write writing would be almost impossible if we had to think every time a muscle contracted are relaxed every time and change direction for a curve or to push or pull to form a letter just try it yourself sometime in front of a mirror fortunately it doesn't take long for any of us with the help of our teachers to learn to write rapidly legibly and easily we learn how to make marks on paper the two well but we're thinking about the tell others how we feel about them transferring our thoughts without a spoken word we can write notes on what we're doing that can be read many years from now and we can use the magic of writing to send our thoughts to friends in any part of the world yet each of us started out where little children start by drawing pictures and the childish drawings are only a little different from the picture writing of many thousands of years ago this ancient picture writings scratched with a bit of playing on a piece of slate tells of a battle with a mammoth picture writing did well enough for recording a simple fact but it could never be used for a clear expression of a thought or an idea while some people were still recording of dance with pictures the ancient egyptian developed a form of writing  also wrote in pictures but now each picture stood for the sound of a syllable this was a big improvement and it was made tactical bar every day use  which they wrote but the pirates from which we get our word paper was very expensive and the read brush wore out quickly and had to be replaced this kind of writing was slow because each character had to be carefully drawn it was all nomar do read and write because so many different pictures were needed to express every syllable in the language with the passage of time the egyptians went to a our word out for that there is much resemblance here to our age and the but in just a minute you see what happened the change business needs called the beginning of the first alphabet was still many centuries away in time the greeks became the great world trade and with them to rome when their alphabet the romans in their turn changed the alphabet until  became very much like the twenty six old characters we used today or thousands of years the world with them writing only in capital letters but with the invention of the reed pen the romans began another chain the reed then made it easy to move across the paris without stopping at the end of each letter over the first time letters were joined together and writing was much faster but in connecting the letters their appearance was changed and that was the beginning of our small letter the next big change came in the middle ages and again the tools used in writing had an influence on the change manuscripts then were being written on calfskin which was called bella from the same ro gave us the word veal and the writing was done with quill usually made from the wing feathers of deal with these expensive and the barrier writing materials than writing became of fine art but it was very slow and these heavy fancy letters were also extremely hard to read and over the quill pen and was the best writing tool available it wore out quickly and was easily broken with the passage of more centuries the affairs of the world and the end of the more convenient writing to more speed in which ability paper was now comparatively cheap and gradually the quill was abandoned in favor of the new steel band even before the american revolution the you peons were being made by hand and friends and this better writing to began to have an effect on the kind of writing people you carefully drawn when people tried to make these fancy letters in a hurry this is what happened writing tools were still far from the one thing the ink used at that time  steelmen and in spite of all the years that it since the invention of writing there was still the un's our problem of convenience and there's no time to lose m jenks this issue is being snapped up by some of the biggest investors in the country  mr bradford i never thought i'd live to see the day when i'd be investing in a railroad you're doing a live thing the world is changing rapidly everyone's demanding more and more speed and everything the smart ones the ones who get in on the ground floor are going to make the big props yes i think i agree with you all if you have something for me to sign onto it now excellent mr jenkins you'll never regret  and now i will have to postpone our business the game has dried up not at all mr jenkins not at all here's a pen and here's  the here was the ink yazid pretty easy to see why many attempts were made to develop a pen that would carry its own supply of veins in one of these early efforts the param got it shot of writing fluid from a medicine dropper this worked well enough at times but often when the pan went dry the medicine dropper was someplace else no medicine driver knowing knowing well i suppose it was pretty hard to keep your temper when things like that happened then along came the idea of letting the pan carry its own medicine dropper a slit was made in the barrel so that when  even after thousands of years of writing progress that's more or less the way things work then one day and i would jeweller took the step that made the fountain pen a practical tool what he did was to put a lever on the barrel to do the job of the coin that was too often missing this was the foreign word step that brings us up to the present in this story of that twenty six old characters and the tools that have influenced their development today the fountain ban like every other improved writing tool in history is causing changes in the way we write making it easier faster and better adding to the permanence of writing let's take a closer look at this tool that has resulted from so many centuries of progress at first glance there doesn't seem to be much to it there and use a plunger instead of the lever for failing through small but continual improvement in design the modern fountain pen is the cleanest and most convenient tool ever developed for permanent handwriting for example how is a pen designed so that the ink will not leak out into your pocket or onto your fingers the answer is in the large size of the feed chamber when the air inside the pan is expanded by the heat of the hand or body the ink has plenty of room to go instead of flowing out on your hand or into your pocket the modern pan can go a long time between drinks and to get the very best out of it there is an expert way of filling a pan just open and close the lever but then let the points stay in the riding fluid well then what's the trick just watch that the goal point is immersed completely in the writing fluid and the plunger is processed and prone several times this place is out everything and at the same time create interruption at exactly the rate you need it actually without knowing it you yourself control of flow by hand measuring the exact amount depending on how fast you write this  a kerosene lamp burns because on oil climbs up the wake from the bowl the oil is carried up the way by a capillary action in the small fires of the cloth this principle has been applied to all modern fountain pens but in the place of a wig the fountain pen has grooves in the most highly developed fluid control the writing fluid gravels down the inside of the feed rises  later the point and then down the point then as the anchor on the point is used up capillary action regulated by your own individual speed of writing brings price fluid to take its place  no matter how fast you write your fountain pen can keep up with you in fact the fastest handwriting in the world today is done with fountain pens i believe he is the kind of them ploy we need here but since i want to be absolutely sure i ask him to come back again next week thanks a lot for sending  regards and so forth that's all for now simpson just as everyone in the world is different from everyone else no two people in the world right exactly alike no one else in the world writes the way you do it's something that marks you as different even before your very special letter to that varies special person is opened that special person knows it's from you each person's handwriting is so individual even strangers can tell who the writer is handwriting experts can identify people as  fingerprint experts do can identify people by their signatures alone a bank clerk will cash a check because he recognizes the signature all oh he may never have seen the deposit and perhaps your teacher has never met your father but chinos his signature individual differences in handwriting make possible many of the activities upon which the world and because writing is so important people form opinions of you by the way you write even now your handwriting is having its effect on you for example scribbled written work makes it difficult for teachers to concentrate on what you've written but if you write clearly the writing doesn't have to be deciphered and all of the teacher's attention can be given to your expression of what you've learned today as throughout history writing is influenced by the kind of writing tools used for one thing good than is important because it should be alive time investment and if you find it hard to write clearly and comfortably it may be because the pan you have doesn't fit your writing style so if you show your handwriting to a store that carries fin found in vans you can find out what point is best for you a pen point can be found as to your particularly style of writing the feel of the pan is a result of the hand grinding and tempering of the long wearing goal point itself and the way it is shaped from tip to heel and just as there is a pan point for every writing style there are six old characters but even today in some parts of the were own handwriting is still complicated here's a message for you in chinese maybe you'd like to know why this message looks like in