According to the available information, the name of ballpoint pen first appeared in 1888. At that time, an American named John Lauder designed a pen with a ball as the nib, but he failed to make it into a commodity convenient for people to use.
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.
During the period of 1936, Biro of Hungary worked as a proofreader in the news printing plant. When correcting proofs with a pen, ambiguity often occurs. Therefore, Biro began to consider whether he could try another writing tool instead of a pen. After a period of experiments, he filled a steel round tube with quick-drying ink and put a steel ball at one end as a nib. Then, he carried out writing experiments on various materials that can be written, and found that they can leave indelible marks, and the ink in the pen tube is not easy to overflow. The experiment was successful. Born in 1940, he improved his invention, applied for a patent in July 1943, and put it into the market in 1945.
A ballpoint pen is different from a fountain pen, because it uses dry and thick ink, which is brought out by the freely rotating steel ball on the pen head and transferred to paper, so it does not leak water, is not affected by the weather, takes a long time to write, and saves the trouble of frequent ink filling. It quickly became popular in the world. At present, Japan alone consumes 400 million ballpoint pens a year.