Everything begins with an idea
Harvey Mackay
In 1930, a Hungarian inventor named Laszlo Jozsef Biro saw some children playing with balls in the water. He noticed the balls left a trail of water as they rolled along the ground. He started thinking: Could one use a ball-shaped metal tip to write?
Biro took the idea to his brother, Gyorgy, who was a chemist, and they worked together to create a new type of pen. They finally settled on the right design, which used a thin ink and a freely rotating ball that was easy to control and kept the ink from drying out.
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