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 B&#237ró, 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.

Biro left Hungary to go to Argentina where he commercialised his product. His pen became a hit among pilots as the fountain pen did not work at higher altitudes. He died in Argentina at the age of 86.

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.

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. 'Wow hopefully that never ...

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.

The winner, though was the splendid Dead Pen Cutlery, by Jaspal Marwah and Sarah Hunt from Vancouver. Instructions: 1) Buy cutlery at garage sale. 2) Snap off the handles.

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 ...

Ladislao Biro, 86, the man who invented the ball point pen, has died. Biro, who developed the pen while working as a reporter in his native Hungary, moved to Argentina at the outset of World War II.