Re: [Rollei] OT: My New Fountain Pen

[Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh >]

Carlos

Simple research told me that Biro patented the ball point pen in 1938,
He emigrated to the Argentine in 1940.

Milton Reynolds sold the first ball point pen in 1945, in Gimbels NY
department store for $12.50.  My father bought one then, and I still
have it.  It never worked right. It skipped and the "blurbed" ink all
over the page.

Jerry


Carlos Manuel Freaza wrote:

> 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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