It was created and patented in Argentina 80 years ago, and so useful that it revolutionized the world. But its inventor was not recognized.
It was one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century. The pen or penas it was called in its time, changed the way of writing. It was created by a Hungarian-Argentine inventor named Ladislao Biro, who lived in Tucumán at the time of developing it. Although he did not receive credits for his invention, it continues to be used today despite the passage of time and technological advances.
Ladislao Biro was a brilliant mind that knew no limits. The revolutionary thing about the pen was not constantly handling fresh ink and using quills and inkwells, putting the surrounding objects at risk of having stains that were difficult to remove, or the writers’ hands themselves. The pen or Birome changed the way of writing.
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How the pen was created and what was its impact
The idea began in Hungary in 1936 when László (the name by which he was known) was working as a journalist. Tired of getting stains with the ink from his Pelikan pen, he looked for a solution to be able to Use an item that would write smoothly and where the paper could quickly absorb the ink.
His inspiration was born from printing press rollersupon seeing how they printed the newspapers, with dry ink on the paper, without staining or smearing the ink, he came up with the idea. So, in 1938, he designed a very basic concept: a tube with a spring connected to a small ball and a piston. That first prototype had problems due to the spring, which caused the tube to expel an excessive amount of ink, and it was useless.
Could Ladislao Biro have been a millionaire?
Agustín P. Justo discovered it by writing a telegram with his invention, better finished and without stains. He offered to open the doors of Argentina to him so that he could develop his invention and ways to overcome legal barriers, because the patent belonged to a similar system that was used to mark cotton crops in the United States.
Two years after that proposal, fleeing persecution by the Nazis, he traveled to Argentina and met with Justo, who was waiting for him with a group of Argentine, English and Hungarian investors like him. A small detail is that at that time Agustín P. Justo was the president of our country.
Quickly, the man set up his workshop on 3050 Fray Justo Santa Maria de Oro Street, in Palermo, where it would later become the first pen factory in the world. And since his ambition was not money, despite having patented more than 30 inventions, he never received million-dollar sums from companies, so despite having earned good sums of money and being able to live well, he never became millionaire.
Source: Ambito
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