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Google honours ballpoint pen inventor with a doodle

Updated on: 29 September,2016 02:28 PM IST  | 
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Google, on Thursday, honoured inventor of ball-point pen Ladislao Jose Biro with a google doodle

Google honours ballpoint pen inventor with a doodle

Google honours ballpoint pen inventor with a doodle


Google, on Thursday, honoured inventor of ball-point pen Ladislao Jose Biro with a google doodle.


Bíro was born in Budapest, Hungary, into a Jewish family. A journalist by trade, Bíro noticed how efficiently newspapers were printed and how quickly the ink dried – in stark contrast to his fountain pen.


He then worked with his brother, György Bíro, a chemist, to develop a new type of pen made up of a ball that turned in a socket. As the ball turned, it picked up ink from a cartridge and rolled to deposit it on paper, much like a newsprint roller transfers an inked image to paper.

Bíro presented the first prototype of the ballpoint pen at the Budapest International Fair in 1931, later patenting his invention in 1938. To this day, the ballpoint pen is still referred to as the 'Biro' in several countries.

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