Hard as a Rock Writing :: Writing Technology Technological Papers

Hard as a Rock typographyCan anyone ever create a new writing technology from items found in nature? Is it possible to invent something to write with and on that had not been thought of in the past? These were the questions I pondered as I sat outside my ho social occasion wondering what to do for my Invent Your admit Technology project. At first, I thought I would somehow contract the pollen from the daffodils growing in my front yard. indeed I wondered, What could I hold to write on with my new yellow ink? How long would it oddment? And what could I write with?. later that I explored the idea of binding twigs unitedly with weeds and creating letters. I could create a portable alphabet this way. Then again, without a permanent base to affix my letters to, they would scatter with the wind. After yesterdays wind, I am glad I heady against that idea. Finally, after oftentimes deliberation and searching in my yard, I came upon a lasting idea. I was sitting in the grass and su ddenly uneven a very sharp rock candy. If only I could find something to print my words into, I mused. It was then(prenominal) that I came across a much larger, dark, flat stone. Then I experimented. Indeed, I could use one stone to write on the other stone. The idea was simple. It was almost too simple. My initial questions rushed back to me. Certainly, this writing technology was not new. However, anything I could depend of would not be new. It might be a new use of materials for me, but ultimately, somewhere, someone at one time or other has thought to use flowers for ink, dried reeds for parchment, a stick as a stylus, and stones to carve words on to other stones. Even as a child, I remember using shells to write words and draw pictures in the sand at the beach. Suddenly, what to write became the focus of my internal debate. Then I remembered Mark Twain reminiscing, in his article The First Writing Machines about(predicate) sitting at his typewriter typing over and over, The boy stood on the importunate deck (501). Could it be that the technology suddenly became more important then the content of Twains writing? Was it the same for me, only in reverse? The technology was so simple I was at a loss for words.