1895, commercial non-writing ballpoint pens were also sold in the British market, but they failed to catch on because of their narrow use. 19 16, Germany designed and manufactured a new ballpoint pen. Its structure is close to today's ballpoint pen, but its performance is poor, which has not attracted widespread attention.
Hungarian journalist László Bíró is very aware of the problems with ordinary pens. Biro believes that he came up with the idea of replacing the traditional ink pen with a pen with quick-drying ink while visiting a newspaper. The ink used in newspapers dries almost instantly, leaving no stains. Biro vowed to apply similar ink to a new writing tool. In order to prevent sticky ink from blocking his pen, he proposed to install a rotatable small metal ball on the top of the tube containing this quick-drying ink. The metal ball has two functions: as a pen cap, it prevents the ink from drying. Let the ink flow out of the pen at a controlled speed. 1June, 943, Biro and his brother George (chemist) applied to the European Patent Office for a new patent and produced the first commercial ballpoint pen-Biro ballpoint pen. Later, the British government bought the right to use this patented ballpoint pen, so that these ballpoint pens could be used by the crew of the Royal Air Force. In addition to being stronger than traditional pens, ballpoint pens can also be used in low-pressure and high-altitude areas (in high-altitude areas, the ink of traditional fountain pens will overflow). This has achieved good results in the Royal Air Force, making the Biro ballpoint pen highly praised. In World War II, this kind of ballpoint pen was widely used in the army because of its firmness and ability to adapt to the battlefield environment.
In the United States, Milton Reynolds introduced a new ballpoint pen in 1945 and successfully put it into commercial production for the first time, replacing the fountain pen that was still very popular at that time. Ballpoint pens use small beads to release high-concentration gelatin ink onto paper. Renault ballpoint pen is a simple writing tool, which is advertised as "the first pen that can write underwater". When Renault first introduced ballpoint pens, its sales volume was 65,438+00,000. These ballpoint pens sold for the first time are very expensive ($65,438+00 each), mainly because they adopt new technology.
1945, the first cheap ballpoint pen was produced. At that time, Marcel Bisch, a Frenchman, developed an industrialized process for manufacturing ballpoint pens, which greatly reduced the unit cost. 1949, Bishop launched his ballpoint pen in Europe. He named these ballpoint pens "BIC", which is a simplified version of his name and easy to remember. Ten years later, BIC Company sold its ballpoint pen to the American market for the first time. At first, consumers were reluctant to buy BIC ballpoint pens, because other manufacturers had introduced many ballpoint pens in the American market. In order to dispel consumers' hesitation, BIC launched an exciting national TV publicity campaign to sell this ballpoint pen to consumers "once use, want to use it every time!" " "And sell this ballpoint pen for only 29 cents. BIC also released TV advertisements depicting their pens being shot by rifles, tied to skates and even mounted on jackhammers. Within a year, competition forced the price of each pen to fall below 10 cent. BIC will produce millions of ballpoint pens every day!
Ballpoint pen is a writing tool that uses the rotation of steel balls to write ink on paper. After World War II, ballpoint pens were introduced into China. Smart businessmen promote "ballpoint pens" and use the afterglow of the atomic bomb exploded in Japan to open up sales. In fact, "ballpoint pen" has nothing to do with atoms, but its pronunciation is similar. Ballpoint pens quickly became popular in the world. Japan alone consumes 400 million ballpoint pens every year. Ballpoint pen can write because the ball in the pen tip can take out the quick-drying ink and transfer it to paper when rolling. It is said that the dry ink in the Japanese ballpoint pen core is enough to write 20 thousand words. However, if you write more words, the gap between the steel ball and the steel tube will gradually become larger, so that the ink will leak out from the gap, which will often stain the clothes and make you uncomfortable.
Pharaoh's ballpoint pen
A small business owner in Japan came up with a unique trick: dry less ink, so that the ink in the refill can only write more than 10000 words at most, thus solving the problem of oil leakage in the ballpoint pen core. So, he applied for a patent and specially produced a short ballpoint pen core and ballpoint pen, which was welcomed by customers. This method of solving problems seems to be a kind of cutting corners, but in essence it is an innovation, an innovation of ideas and methods to solve problems that people could not solve at that time.
In the 1950s, ballpoint pens were more expensive than pens, and they were not willing to throw them away when they were used up. You can continue to use it after adding pen oil in a special pen shop. It is said that Biro is Hungarian and a proofreader of a printing factory. Because the printed proof contains a lot of water, it is easy to be blurred when it is corrected with a pen, so he writes in ball retainer and lives in Mo Dou, which is not easy to cause the previous problems. Later, Biro provided his invention to the Royal Air Force, and the first ballpoint pen was produced by an airplane factory in Britain. Until World War II, Americans adopted Bello's invention. 19 16, the new ballpoint pen designed by Lisboa, Germany is not popular. It was not until the outbreak of World War II that the U.S. military department proposed to make a pen suitable for writing at high altitude, which is watertight, unaffected by cold and heat, and can store a large amount of ink without frequent irrigation, and rewarded it. 1944 Chicago businessman Renault saw that this was an excellent opportunity to make a fortune. Because of his active thinking, he asked someone to improve the Portuguese-Beijing pen and achieved success in a year or so. Just then, the United States dropped an atomic bomb in Japan. He advertised his pen and named it ballpoint pen, which quickly became popular all over the world.