Ballpoint Pen
InventorLaszlo Biro
Year1938
CategoryWriting
OriginHungary/Argentina
About Ballpoint Pen
Biro noticed newspaper ink dried instantly and adapted it for pens. He fled to Argentina before WWII. The RAF adopted ballpoints because they did not leak at altitude. Marcel Bich bought the patent and created the Bic Cristal, selling over 100 billion pens.