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Friday, September 30, 2016

Google Celebrates the 117th Birthday of Ladislao Jose Biro With A Doodle Thursday Sep 29,2016


Google on Thursday Sep 29,2016 celebrates the 117th Birthday of Ladislao Jose Biro. Many might not know his name but we all certainly know his most famous invention: the ballpoint pen.

14Biro was born, into a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary , was a journalist by prefession. Biro noticed how efficiently newspapers were printed and how quickly the ink dried - in stark contrast to his fountain pen. He worked with his brother, Gyorgy Biro, to develop a new type of pen made up of a ball that turned in a socket. As the ball turned, it picked up ink from a cartridge and rolled to deposit it on paper, much like a newsprint roller transfers an inked image to paper.

Today's google doodle shows how exactly the 1st ball point pen worked and the mechanism used behind it.

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