It seemed like an innocuous question: “Why can’t China make a good ballpoint pen?” But it carried a much deeper meaning thanks to the man who asked it: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. At a seminar in ...
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History of the ball-point pen
(WYTV)- 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 ...
TAIYUAN -- China, the world's biggest manufacturer of ballpoint pens, has finally developed its own pen tips, ending a long-term reliance on imported ones. Taiyuan Iron & Steel (Group), or TISCO, said ...
One is "ballpoint pen," which describes the principle behind it, and "biro," which is the name of the man who invented the first practical version. Whatever the name, these pens are so cheap that they ...
Rothman is managing editor at TIME. An early ballpoint pen, circa 1945 Rothman is managing editor at TIME. The first whispers came in the summer of 1944: a Hungarian inventor living in Argentina had ...
A worker measures steel components for pen tips at Taiyuan Iron and Steel (Group), or TISCO, in Taiyuan, north China's Shanxi Province, Jan. 10, 2017. China, the world's biggest manufacturer of ...
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