The Ballpoint Pen

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The Ballpoint Pen

• By Paul Dini

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Menu

• When Was It Made?
• Who Made It?
• How Has It Affected Lives?
• How Does It Work?
• Bibliography

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When Was The Ballpoint Made?

• The Ballpoint pen was made in 1938. It was
  created by Laszlo Biro. He noticed that the ink
  used in the news paper was able to be used
  without it drying. He only needed to figure out a
  way to make it so that you could carry it around.
  After all of the time he thought about it, he
  finely came up with the idea of making this
  invention. At first he had it were you would take
  this bottle of the ink and dip the tip of a glass
  and metal stick like feather. The only thing is
  that you had to keep dipping the pen back in to
  the bottle. So then another man came along, took
  the idea and mad it so that the pen could suck up
  the ink out of the bottle.

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Who Made It?

• The creator of the ballpoint pen was Laszlo
  Biro. Biro was born in Budapest in the year of
  1899. Laszlo was a journalist, and one time when
  he was working on an article and noticed that the
  ink on the papers would dry fast. So he then
  tried to find out a way that he could have the
  ink able to be on different paper, besides the
  newspaper. That is when Laszlo wonted to try and
  make something that would change his life
  forever. As it turned out, his invention did
  change his life forever.

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How Has It Affected Lives?

• The ballpoint pen has affected our lives in
  many different ways. For one it now allows us to
  use ink in other places other then the papers. It
  lets us have an inerasable substance that we can
  use to write with. Then again the pen has also
  made some things harder about our lives. One of
  these things is that if you mess up on something
  you cant erase it, because the ink I the pens is
  inerasable.

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How Does It Work?

• The ballpoint pen has its own way of working.
  There is a very small ball in the tip that the
  ink comes out. The ball spins when you move the
  pen back and forth. All of the ink that is in the
  pen slides to the front (were the ball is). So as
  the ball is rolling it picks up some ink and puts
  it on the paper. The ink is sticky enough that it
  will set on the paper as it rolls by.

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Bibliography

• Webs
• www.google.com
• www.answer.com
• www.inventors.about.com