Who doesn’t have a ballpoint pen close at hand? A Hungarian Argentine inventor named László Bíró invented the pen as we know it today in 1938. The first patent for a ballpoint pen came out in 1888, ...

A normal pack of 10 Bic crystal pens is ... BIC For Her Retractable Ball Pen Be Careful Boys "These pens are really dangerous to non-girls, they turned my brother into a unicorn and I've been ...

Practical fountain pens with internal ink cartridges had been in use for decades, but Laszlo Biro devised a new version that used a ball bearing instead of a nib—in other words, the modern ...

Barring tweaks and improvements, the pen is still recognisable as the ball-point Biro devised to make writing easier ... According to Stephen Fry on QI, normal biros work fine in zero gravity. So why ...

If too hot, though, the ink turned green instead of its normal blue. Fisher offered ... pushes the ink toward the tungsten carbide ball at the pen's tip. The ink, too, differs from that of other ...

The Uni-ball Jetstream is unassuming. It looks like any other ballpoint pen. It’s lightweight, has a retractable tip, and is sold in several tip colors and widths. But the Jetstream is the only ...

It's being reported that China, as a nation or even a collection of industries and companies, cannot actually make a ballpoint pen. This seems a little odd but it also seems to be true. And what ...