The History of Ballpoint Pens

Recent years ballpoint pens are well-known as a writing tool in the world. As it have prominent advantages: simple structure, easy to carry, writing well, and suitable for replication, etc. And it is hot welcomed by people from schools to offices in all walks of life who are willing to civilian use. Ballpoint pen is different from fountain pen, which it uses a dry thick ink, and the ink head is also relying with a freely rotatable ball. Then therefore it does not leak on the paper, also not affect from climate influence. And it also eliminates the need regular ink perfusion. It is commonly called in foreign BAK (bic).

Some people think that the ballpoint pen is an American invention, after World War II because it was introduced to China from the United States, then, the United States succeeded in producing a nuclear bomb. So, people put "ballpoint pens" in the name of Canada. Ballpoint pen is produced in 1944.As its good practical applicability, from schools to offices in all walks of life are willing to civilian use. Writing pen principle, mainly using beads when writing paper in direct contact with the frictional force, the ball rolling in the ball seat with the ink or the ink cartridge in order to achieve the purpose of writing.

Ball was produced in 1943 an editor Slobodan Biro found that printing ink dries quickly and does not stain the manuscript, so he decided to make the same ink pen. But this viscous ink can not flow out from the general tip. As with help of his brothers a chemist George, they devised a way to use capillary action of the ink to the ball pen. In 1954, a well-know Company introduced advanced Jotter ballpoint pen, this pen large capacity and can replenish the ink when the ink runs out.

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