Re: [Rollei] OT: My New Fountain Pen

[Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza]

OK, Jerry, I wanted say at early 30's, not 50's, but
he made and tried commercialize our well-known
"birome" here first. In Argentina was a failure then
he sought out new horizons.-
All the best
Carlos    
- --- Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh  > escribió: >
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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