Interesting facts about The biro

THE BIRO

"No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had." Samuel Johnson.  A ballpoint pen, also known as a biro, ball pen, is a pen that dispenses ink over a metal ball at its point, i.e. over a "ball point".  The concept of using a ball point within a writing instrument as a method of applying ink to paper has existed since the late 19th century.

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Макет рисунка с подписью Ladislao José Biró (1899-1985) was born in Hungary (László József Bíró) and ended his life in Argentina, where he fled as the Nazis swept through Europe. Journalist, inventor, businessman…, The inventor of the ballpoint pen (or birome in Argentina) was a man with a thirst for knowledge and many varied interests, from chemistry and painting to the social organization of ants, which he used to observe for hours, according to his daughter Mariana

Then, in May 1945, Eversharp Company teamed up with Eberhard-Faber to acquire exclusive rights to Biro Pens of Argentina. The pen was rebranded as the “Eversharp CA,” which stood for “capillary action.” Less than a month after Eversharp/Eberhard closed the deal with Eterpen, a Chicago businessman, Milton Reynolds, visited Buenos Aires in June 1945. He noticed the Biro pen while he was in a store and recognized the pen’s sales potential. He bought a few as samples and returned to America to launch the Reynolds International Pen Company, ignoring Eversharp’s patent rights. Reynolds copied the Biro pen within four months and began to sell his product by the end of October 1945. Britain was not far behind. The Miles-Martin Pen Company sold the first ballpoint pens to the public there at Christmas 1945.

 BIC® dominates the market in the 21st century. Parker, Sheaffer, and Waterman capture smaller upscale markets of fountain pens and expensive ballpoints. The highly popular modern version of Laszlo Biro's pen, the BIC Crystal, has a daily worldwide sales figure of 14 million pieces. Biro is still the generic name used for the ballpoint pen used in most of the world.

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