Who doesn’t have a ballpoint pen close at hand? A Hungarian Argentine inventor named László Bíró invented the pen as we know it today in 1938. The first patent for a ballpoint pen came out in 1888, ...

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László Bíró was sick of smudging the ink from his fountain pen and so he invented the ballpoint pen in 1938. Show more In 1938, László Bíró, a Hungarian journalist, invented the ballpoint ...