Trained as a medical doctor, Henry Stephens (1796-1864) relocated his rural medical practice to London in 1829 and started experimenting with inks and transparent stains for timber. Stephens’ tinkering bore fruit when he invented an indelible ink that wrote in blue and dried black. His work was groundbreaking; until then, inks were neither permanent nor […]
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