As a teacher, I couldn’t help but wonder how anyone could think there’s a shortage. I find ballpoint pens all over the place: on classroom floors, behind desks. Dozens of castaways collect in ...

“A window-shattering, hell-raising, no-holds-barred fracas”: That was how Nation’s Business magazine described the American debut of the ballpoint pen in 1945. At $12.50 a pen—around $160 ...

But relatively quickly, users began working on a version that would be less likely to smudge ink everywhere, leading to the development of the modern ballpoint pen. Independently, inventors around ...

Everyone was clamoring for the hottest new technology – the ballpoint pen. This new pen cost $12.50, which is about $180 today. For many people, the improved experience that the ballpoint ...

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.

This story involves something as simple as the ballpoint pen — yes, that humble device you may well have lying around your desk or collecting dust at the bottom of your bag — and China's ...

The pen may be mightier than the sword, but when Jewish-Hungarian journalist László Bíró invented the ballpoint pen in the 1930s clichéd sayings were probably the last thing on his mind.

He considered the new ‘ball point’ pen launched by the Reynolds company in the United States, and was mystified by the allure of this expensive instrument that produced what he considered as ...

Upon closer inspection, you see these dramatic images are the culmination of thousands of tiny lines made using a simple ballpoint pen. Suowari, 31, has been an artist since she was a child ...