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László József Bíró (Hungarian: [ˈlaːsloː ˈjoːʒɛf ˈbiːroː]; né Schweiger; 29 September 1899 – 24 October 1985), Hispanicized as Ladislao José Biro, was an Argentinian, Hungary-born Jewish inventor who patented the first commercially successful modern ballpoint pen.
László Bíró was a Hungarian inventor of the easy-to-use writing implement generally known as the biro in Britain and the ballpoint pen in the United States.
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.
A Hungarian journalist named Laszlo Biro invented the first ballpoint pen in 1938. Biro had noticed that the ink used in newspaper printing dried quickly, leaving the paper smudge-free, so he decided to create a pen using the same type of ink.
László Bíró was a Hungarian-Argentine inventor who patented the first commercially successful modern ballpoint pen. The first ballpoint pen was invented roughly 50 years earlier by John J. Loud, but it did not attain commercial success.
László József Bíró (September 29, 1899 – October 24, 1985) was the inventor of the modern ballpoint pen. Bíró was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary in 1899. He presented the first production of the ball pen at the Budapest International Fair in 1931.
Today many manufacturers make ballpoint pens that work on the same principle invented by Bíró. The ballpoint pen is even called “biro” in many countries like UK, Ireland, Australia, and Italy in a generic trademark.
In 1938, László Bíró, a Hungarian journalist, invented the ballpoint pen, because he was sick of smudging the ink from his fountain pen. Inspired by the rollers of the printing press at his...
The search for the instrument that was to become the very essence of today’s written language began in Hungary with a man called László Bíró. He was a failed medical student who wandered around doing several jobs in the 1920s while trying to make a name for himself as an inventor.
He invented one of the most produced devices in history, but hardly profited from it: László Bíró is the father of the modern ballpoint pen, which still bears his name in many countries today. The creative jack-of-all-trades was born László József Schweiger in Budapest on 29 September 1899.