Re: [Rollei] OT: My New Fountain Pen

[Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza]

Don and Jerry:
                             I have something to say
about the "birome". The "birome" was invented in
Argentina by  Ladislao Biro, an Hungarian inmigrant at
early 50's. Ladislao Biro sold his invent to Europe,
but this pen was made and commercialized in Argentina
first. That the "birome" is an "argentinean invent" is
a well-known fact here.
All the best
Carlos
 
- --- Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh  > escribió: >
Don
> 
> I misspelled his name deliberately as it means
> something in French.
> 
> So that is why they are called Biro in Europe.
> 
> Jerry
> 
> Don Williams wrote:
> 
> > At 11:18 AM 5/24/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> > >John and David
> > >
> > >Wasn't there a Frenchman named Marcel Biche who
> invented
> > >a writing tool that would make the fountain pen
> obsolete?
> > >Whatever happened to it?
> > >
> > >Jerry
> >
> > Very close-
> >
> > He didn't invent it, he just commercialized it:
> >
> > http://www.scripophily.net/biccorporation.html
> >
> > You're Wronggggggg!!!!! about the name, it is
> spelled "Marcel BICH"
> >
> > Don Williams
> > La Jolla, CA
>  

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