When were ball point pens invented?
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On an October morning in 1945, the ball point pen was invented. The first day of Gimbals sales, they sold out the entire stock of pens. There were 10,000 pens only for 12.50 for one pen. In 1888 John Loud patented a rolling ball tipped pen. In 1943 the Biros set up a manufacturing place. A great interest came from the American fliers. The ball point pen was ideal for the pilots because it worked at high altitudes. Milton Reynolds marketed a kind of ball point pen. The first had no smear-ink.
In 1952 a man named Bich introduced a new pen: non leaky pen called the ball point Bic. Pens depended on the gravity for ink to dribble to the rolling ball. These pens only worked when they were
slanted diagonally . A new design relied on capillary action rather then gravity feeding the ink. That rough ball at the end of this improved ink flow even more smoothly. A reservoir held the ink and a roller ball applied the thick ink to the leather hides. They made the pens out of aluminum scraps that were not being used for the war. The sharp tip of the fountain pen sometimes ripped or tore the newsprint. Then they invented a smooth writing, quick drying, non skipping, non fading pen that most importantly did not leak . So Marcel Bich invented a very, very bad pen of poor quality at a very high cost. In every pen a rolling ball mechanism is pretty much the same as found in a ball point bic.
Did not see them on the shelves till approx 1952 and were not accepted in schools till a few years later. Till then we had to use ink wells and fountain pens
The first ball point pens were invented by two Hungarian brothers, George and Laszlo Brio. They applied for patents in 1938 and 1940 and formed Enterpen Company in Argentina to produce them. In May of 1945 Eversharp and Eberhard - Faber teamed up and acquired the patents; marketing it under the name Eversharp CA. In June of 1945 Chicago businessman Milton Reynolds saw them in Argentina, brought some back, copied them and marketed them as Reynold's Rockets; ignoring Eversharps patent. More information can be found at the site listed in the source location.
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