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Ballpoint pen

1938Everyday items & gamesHungary

Journalist László József Bíró patented the fast-drying, thick-ink ballpoint pen in 1938. He and his brother György Bíró further developed it after emigrating to Argentina, where it went into mass production.

Inventor
Bíró László József (1899–1985)
Journalist, inventor
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