History of the invention and illustrated process of making Foley's diamond pointed gold pens . untilabout the year 1S25, when the production was largely increased, andthe cost was greatly reduced. The manufacture was chiefly confinedto Birmingham, England. Steel Pens of different makes and formsare still used in large quantities, though it is now well establishedthat their use subjects persons to cramps of the muscles, and to apeculiar kind of paralysis of the hand and arm. The Gold Pen Has been for the past thirty years a prime necessity for those whowrite. It outwears the steel Pen, it is as
History of the invention and illustrated process of making Foley's diamond pointed gold pens . untilabout the year 1S25, when the production was largely increased, andthe cost was greatly reduced. The manufacture was chiefly confinedto Birmingham, England. Steel Pens of different makes and formsare still used in large quantities, though it is now well establishedthat their use subjects persons to cramps of the muscles, and to apeculiar kind of paralysis of the hand and arm. The Gold Pen Has been for the past thirty years a prime necessity for those whowrite. It outwears the steel Pen, it is as easy in the hand as aquill, its point is everlasting, and, with proper care, the longer it isused the better it becomes. This paragraph is written with one ofFoleys Bank Pens made in and dated 1852. After 23 years con-stant use it is as good as it was the day it was finished. Though themaking of Gold Pens is now apparently a small thing, it has requiredthe exercise of much ingenuity and no little patience and skill tobring it to its present state of perfection; and if it be a matter of */. ROLLING MILL, OR STOCK ROLLS. This machine rolls or stretches the bar of gold to perhaps ten times its originallength, reducing it to a ribbon about -fa of an inch thick. Its width ought to be justenough to cut out two blank Pens. The machine is propelled by steam or hand is complicated, very heavy, made and finished in the finest and most expensivemanner, and regulated by two screws on each end. Each time the bar passes throughthe screws are turned down, until the required thickness is attained, and it is thenready for the 48 interest to the curious reader to trace the progress and persistentinventive skill, which has been illustrated in the Steamboat by Fitchand Fulton, in the Telegraph by Morse, in the Sewing Machine byHowe, the Power Press by Hoe, the Reaper by McCormick, andHard Rubber by Goodyear, it is no less a subject of interest to knowthe gradual steps by which the knowle
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