For pen manufacturers and distributors, however, the real news was that Biro had filed a patent, which meant that the company that bought the rights ought to be able to corner the ballpoint market.

June 10 is National Ballpoint pen day. Why celebrate such a seemingly simple item? When it was invented, the ballpoint pen was revolutionary. The writing apparatus was invented by Hungarian painter ...

If any one product were to sell at the incredible rate of 57 units per second over the course of a year, it would have to be considered one of the most commercially successful consumer products of all ...

The US singer who became the Soviet Union’s Red Elvis Escaping the Nazis in Greece Brain: A personal computer virus In 1938, László Bíró, a Hungarian journalist, invented the ballpoint pen, because he ...

It started as an answer to leaky pens carried by American soldiers during World War Two, was perfected and made popular by an Italian-born baron and has written its way into history as the world’s ...

Today’s Google doodle marks the 117th birthday of Ladislao José Bíro, the man responsible for the ballpoint pen. Working with his brother, Google says Bíro introduced the first ballpoint pen at the ...

Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and yet, it’s one of the most unsung ...