Daily Vignette for 22 November -- The Steel Pen

[wcg]

On November 22nd 1809, Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore filed a patent for a steel pen. Williamson, a native of New York, had moved to Baltimore and set up shop as a jeweler. He fabricated his first steel ink-pen in 1800, and spent nine years working on the design until he was satisfied that it could be mass-produced at a profit

Comments

[browngirl]

... is your theme this month The Making of the Modern World?

Am I the last of your readers to realize this? :)

[wcg]

No, at least not consciously. I'm more interested in just finding a story of something interesting but not especially well known to pass along every day. November 22nd is actually pretty hard, since the Kennedy assassination looms so large over this day.