The history of the penThe first pens used by people were stones and sharpened sticks. A man wrote on clay boards with them. Later people began to use feathers for writing, but thanks for people inventions
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. Unfortunately this invention didn’t become very popular with manufacturers.
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It became very popular by chance. One summer
day while vacation at the sea shore the Biro
brothers met an interesting gentleman Augustine Justo,who happened to be the president of Argentina. After the brothers showed him their model of a ballpoint pen, the President Justo urged them to set up a factory in Argentina. When World War 2 broke out in Europe a few years later, the Biro fled to Argentina stopping in Paris along the way to patent their pen.
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In 1943 the producing of ballpoint pens began
in Argentina. They were in a great demand among
American pilots who made them famous all over the world.
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In spite of Biro’s invention, the world remembered
the name of another person, George Parker , who
used to be an agent selling pens.
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His customers complained about the pens he sold
so much that he invented his own pen.
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Parker’s pen became really famous because it was
being used while the German Instrument of Surrender was
being signed on May 8,1945.
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The Soviet Government asked Parker to organize the
producing of ballpoint pens in the USSR but he
didn’t want to collaborate with Stalin. It took Soviet scientists 4 years to design their own ballpoint pen. It appeared in 1949.