who invented ball point pen?

Answer 1

The modern ball point pen was invented in 1938 by the Argentine-Hungarian journalist László Bíró. In the 1930s Bíró was working as the editor of a small newspaper. Bíró was frustrated by the amount of time that he wasted in filling up fountain pens and cleaning up smudged pages, and the sharp tip of his fountain pen often tore his pages. Bíró had noticed that the type of ink used in newspaper printing dried quickly, leaving the paper dry and smudge free. He decided to create a pen using the same type of ink. Since, when tried, this viscous ink would not flow into a regular fountain pen nib, Bíró—with the help of his brother George, a chemist—began to work on designing new types of pens. Bíró fitted this pen with a tiny ball bearing in its tip that was free to turn in a socket. As the pen moved along the paper, the ball rotated, picking up ink from the ink cartridge and leaving it on the paper. Bíró filed a British patent on 15 June, 1938.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

You already have the answer of Mr Biro who invented the ball point pen but did you know that the ball point pen was the forerunner to the ink-jet printer?
A pretty useless bit of information and I don't know the name of the person that did it (but it might have been a Mr Hewlett or a Mr Packard or some associate of Kodak-Eastman) who was sitting working with a soldering iron and set it down a bit too close to his Biro. The 'nib' heated up and the ink shot out - thus giving him the idea that if he could control the ink flow then he could create the printer! I don't know about all the software and how he managed the control - but the idea was born.
So there you go, without the ball point pen and Mr Biro, you would never have had the ink jet printer!

Answer 4

In 1879 in Providence, Rhode Island, Alonzo T. Cross invented the stylographic fountain pen, a precursor of the ball-point pen. He engaged in competition with Duncan Mackinnon, the other stylographic pen inventor. In 1880 A. T. Cross separated his business from his father's and renamed his company the A. T. Cross - Pen and Pencil Manufacturer.

The fountain pen by Lewis Edson Waterman in 1884 was another step forward in the development of writing instruments. The problems of ink, e.g. drying out, remained. They could be overcome by a ballpoint pen. The first to think of it was the German inventor Baum who patented a ball-point pen (Kugelschreiber) in 1910.

However, the first man to actually develop and launch a ball-point pen was the Hungarian László Jozsef Bíró (1899-1985) from Budapest, who in 1938 invented a ball-point pen with a pressurized ink cartridge. He is considered the inventor of today's ball-point pen.

Answer 5

The modern ball point pen was invented in 1938 by the Argentine-Hungarian journalist László Bíró.

Answer 6

Sir Alan James Bic, relative of Mark Pig, the inventor of the first pen!

Answer 7

Mr. Ball Point

Answer 8

An Hungarian chap whose surname was Biro

Answer 9

Biro

Answer 10

Sir ball point