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.

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 ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Sept. 29 (UPI) --Google is celebrating what would have been the 177th birthday of ballpoint pen creator Ladislao Jose Biro with a new Doodle. Users who visit Google's homepage ...

You may not realise this but the humble ballpoint pen, used by millions of people around the world every day, is less than eight decades old. Invented as the Second World War was about to begin in ...

Ladislao José Bíro was born 117 years ago today, and while you may not have heard of him before, you’re surely familiar with his most lasting invention: the ballpoint pen. Google’s latest Doodle ...

You may not have heard of Ladislao José Biro, but you will certainly have heard of his most famous invention - the ballpoint pen. Bíro was born in 1899 in Budapest, Hungary, into a Jewish family. A ...

Google, on Thursday, honoured inventor of ball-point pen Ladislao Jose Biro with a google doodle. Bíro was born in Budapest, Hungary, into a Jewish family. A journalist by trade, Bíro noticed how ...

Arguably the most important invention for the written word since the printing press, the humble biro pen is 70 years old. Invented by Hungarian Laszlo Biro, the simple plastic ballpoint, owes its ...

THE MAN who invented the ball point pen has been remembered on the Google homepage. To celebrate the 117th birthday of Ladislao José Biro, the search engine has created a special doodle for the ...