Violent attacker who stuck a biro pen in hospital inpatient's neck before stamping on his head is jailed for more than four and a half years. For confidential support, call Samaritans on 116 123 ...

The Bíro pen was patented in 1938. The rest is history. The ballpoint pen is still often called a “biro” in several countries , including the U.K., Ireland, Australia and Italy.

Go to updated and illustrated post. 1943: Brothers László and Georg Bíró, Hungarian refugees living in Argentina, patent the ballpoint pen. A half-century-old idea is coming to commercial ...

The pen may be mightier than the sword, but when Jewish-Hungarian journalist László Bíró invented the ballpoint pen in the 1930s clichéd sayings were probably the last thing on his mind.

The results for ReadyMade's MacGYVER: Dead Pen Edition competition are in, and they demonstrate the breadth of imagination that goes into hacking and repurposing a simple object. Readers have ...

A journalist by trade, Biro received a patent for the ballpoint pen in 1938. Today’s Google doodle marks the 117th birthday of Ladislao José Bíro, the man responsible for the ballpoint pen.

Hungarian Laszlo Biro patented the ballpoint pen, which he had been developing since the ’30s. In many languages, the word for ballpoint pen is “biro.” Source: Chase’s Calenda.

Google doodle: Ladislao Jose Biro invented the ballpoint pen. His simply remarkable invention is one of the most common things to be used all over the world. Google doodle is commemorating the ...

The video has since been viewed a staggering 3.1million times, and many couldn't believe it. 'I remember chewing this pen cap during my childhood,' one person commented.

Stacey Solomon and her team have shared a clever hack to remove biro pen marks from furniture. The TV presenter and her team headed to Rotherham in South Yorkshire on the new episode of Stacey's ...

PRINCESS Margaret “didn’t have much of an opinion” of Prince Harry and once gave him a biro pen for Christmas, he claims. He said the late Queen’s younger sister — who died in 2002 aged ...