To paraphrase the classic - if there were no ballpoint pens, they would have to be invented. All the amenities of a ballpoint pen can be fully appreciated only by those who happen to write with fountain and bulk pens.
With the advent of ballpoint pens on the office supply market, schoolchildren were able to breathe a sigh of relief. Blots, blotters, ink-filled notebooks, smeared hands, face and clothes are a thing of the past. Indeed, before the schoolchild's task was not so much learning to write as how to cope with pens and inkwells.
Ballpoint pens
The main inconvenience of fountain and liquid pens was the need for regular wetting of the pen with ink, which was still acceptable at school, but significantly slowed down any processes in the adult world, from political to industrial. A special need for transformations was observed in aviation, where pilots were forced to use pencils.
The idea of a permanent supply of ink to the pen writing unit has been considered by the inventors for a long time. The first analogs of a pen with a ball mounted in a writing tip were found in the territory of modern Armenia in a figure dated 1166.
Subsequently, the idea of a rotating tip was returned repeatedly - only in the USA 350 patents were issued. But the American John D. Laud and the Hungarians Laszlo and Georg Biro, who patented the leaking handles, are considered official inventors.
