1943: Brothers László and Georg Bíró, Hungarian refugees living in Argentina, patent the ballpoint pen. A half-century-old idea is coming to commercial fruition. Lewis Waterman’s invention of a practical fountain pen, patented in 1884, had already solved the problem of portability. You no longer had to carry around an inkwell to be able to write […]
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