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 ...

Fargo - In case you didn't know, today is National Ballpoint Pen Day, a somewhat modest celebration of the ubiquitous writing tool. The modern ballpoint was patented 75 years ago by Hungarian ...

It was the biro pen that revealed your wisdom to college examiners, shaping the careers of many Kenyans. Today, it remains the king of pens.

It started as an answer to leaky pens carried by American soldiers during World War Two, was perfected and made popular by an Italian-born baron and has written its way into history as the world’s ...

A Hungarian journalist, Laszlo Biro, noticed newspaper ink dried fast without smudging. This led him to invent the ballpoint ...

__1943: __ Brothers László and Georg Bíró, Hungarian refugees living in Argentina, patent the ballpoint pen. A half-century-old idea is coming to commercial fruition. Lewis Waterman's invention of a ...

On this date in history: In 1692, Bridget Bishop was found guilty of the practice of witchcraft and hanged in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She was the first colonist executed during ...