The first ballpoint pen patent, 392,046, was issued to John Loud on October 30, 1888.
László Bíró and Georg Bíró created the first commercial ballpoint pen. The brothers filed for a British patent on June 15, 1938. They also filed and received US patent 2,400,679 on May 21, 1946.
Loud's pen was developed to write on leather for the leather industry. Ball point pens that were suitable to write on paper took a number of patents years of further development. The big break for the common ballpoint pen was in 1945 when Gimbels Department Store marketed them, the price was $9.75.
The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo Biro.
laszlo biro invented the ballpoint pen in 1938 !
The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo Biro.
The ballpoint pen
The first patent was issued on October 30 1888
John J. Loud is credited for inventing the modern ballpoint pen.
While there were several prior patents launched, the standardised ballpoint pen as you know it was invented by László Bíró. The first patent of the ballpoint pen was John Loud ..1888; 60 years before.
The ballpoint pen was invented on October 30, 1888, by John J. Loud, but it was not commercially successful. The modern version of the ballpoint pen that we use today was invented by László Bíró in 1938.
Laszlo Biro
The first country to invent the ballpoint pen was the United States. John Jacob Loud, an American inventor, is known for designing the first ballpoint pen. However, it did not become a viable commercial endeavor until Biro Pens of Argentina was founded in 1941.
He invented the ballpoint pen
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