The ball-point pen was invented by a Hungarian called Laszlo Biro. He was the man of many talents. He was a journalist, painter, sculptor and hypnotist. As an editor it was his job to select, correct and sometimes compose articles. This man meant considerable paper work for which he used a fountain pen. Sometimes it scratched the paper. Sometimes it overflowed leaving blobs of ink on the writing. He had to change the paper and write again. All these interruptions irritated Biro. He always dreamt of pen without these flaws. He worked on it and ultimately succeeded in designing a pen that answered his expectations. Technically, it was a superb discovery but its production was expensive. For sometimes it remained a funny item. It soon caught attention of air force pilots who found it ideal for high altitude since it didn’t depend on gravity and went on writing without having to be ink-filled now and then. Gradually the pen became so famous that in the first market sale organized in 1945 in New York, the entire stock of 10,000 pens was sold out on the same day. The people wanted to be the first honors of the miracle pen.
