Pop Quiz: Who invented Ball-Point Pen?

Question

a). John Bic
b). Dr. Alan M. Turing
c). Otto
d). John J. Loud
e). Roger Bacon

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Answer 1

a French bloke called Biro

Answer 2

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 3

László Bíró, a Hungarian newspaper editor, 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 of newsprint. 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 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 4

John J. Loud

Answer 5

A number of people were involved with the process that ultimately resulted in the modern ball-point pen. Check out this article at Wikipedia....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_point_pen

Answer 6

John loud came up with the idea but Ladislas Biro got it on the market.

john came up with it in 1866 and Ladislas came up with the better version andgot it on the market in 1933

Answer 7

Laszlo Biro

Answer 8

I'm gonna go with A - John Bic, cuz I said so.

Answer 9

László Bíró

Answer 10

d) John J. Loud