Ladislao
Biro was the man who changed the way we write thanks to his famous
invention: the ballpoint pen. Biro was born in Budapest but he moved
to Argentina at the invitation of the president of the country at the
time, Agustin Pedro Justo.
While
Justo had been staying at a hotel abroad, he noticed Biro signing a
document with a prototype of the ballpoint pen he had invented. The
president's interest was sparked and he invited the inventor to
develop his project in Argentina.
The
story goes that Biro, a journalist by profession, was uncomfortable
working with his fountain pen, which often got clogged up while he
was writing. One day he was watching some children playing with balls
in the street and he saw that when the balls rolled into a puddle,
they left a trait of water when they rolled out on the other side.
This is how he got the idea for his invention: adding a tiny sphere
to the writing instrument. He patented it in Hungary in 1939, but the
prototype was never I marketed.
That
is how, in 1940, Ladislao Biro, along with his partner Jorge Meyne
and his brother George Biro, founded a company in Argentina to launch
the invention onto the market under the trade name Birome (a
combination of the names Biro and Meyne).
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