Arguably the most important invention for the written word since the printing press, the humble biro pen is 70 years old. Invented by Hungarian Laszlo Biro, the simple plastic ballpoint, owes its ...

Yeah, you can buy those blue Bic pens in bulk if you want—a boatload costs about as much as your morning coffee. And all pens are pretty much the same, right? Of course not. Cheapo pens are much more ...

Fountain pens were a stylish statement but messy and impractical. Their replacement was a stroke of design genius perfectly in time for the era of mass production. On 29 October 1945, the New York ...

Chances are you’ve never heard the name László József Bíró before, but you likely use his history-changing signature invention nearly every day. On Thursday, Google honored the Hungarian genius behind ...

Ladislao José Bíro was born 117 years ago today, and while you may not have heard of him before, you’re surely familiar with his most lasting invention: the ballpoint pen. Google’s latest Doodle ...

László Bíró was sick of smudging the ink from his fountain pen and so he invented the ballpoint pen in 1938. Show more In 1938, László Bíró, a Hungarian journalist, invented the ballpoint pen, because ...