Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and yet, it’s one of the most unsung ...

June 10 is National Ballpoint pen day. Why celebrate such a seemingly simple item? When it was invented, the ballpoint pen was revolutionary. The writing apparatus was invented by Hungarian painter ...

Would you pay $180 for a new type of writing instrument? Image via The New York Times On a crisp fall morning in late October 1945, approximately 5,000 shoppers rushed the 32 nd street Gimbel’s ...

A short history of the ballpoint pen: “Invented by Hungarian Laszlo Jozsef Biro, the ballpoint first went into production in Argentina in 1943. Unlike the fountain pen, the ballpoint performed for ...

The ballpoint pen, which is used in homes, workplaces, schools, and other places where people write, is arguably the most common tool in our daily lives. Its invention transformed the way we write in ...

The idea of perforating the caps of pens appears to have started in the United Kingdom, where a new safety standard was adopted in 1990 (BS 7272). Between 1970 and 1984, nine children in the United ...