Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2007).
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László Bíró
László József Bíró, Hispanicized as Ladislao José Biro, was an Argentine, Hungary-born inventor who patented the first commercially successful modern ballpoint pen. The first ballpoint pen had been invented roughly 50 years earlier by John J. Loud, but it was not a commercial success.
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culture · Hungarian-Argentine inventor (1899–1985) · inventor · journalist · sculptor · also László Bíró, László József Bíró, Ladislao José Biro, Ladislao Biro, Laszlo Biro, Laszlo Jozsef Biro
Born 29 September 1899 · Died 24 October 1985 · Q312680
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1985· 1 entry
Died 1985-10-24.
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1945· 1 entry
Marcel Bich bought the patent for the pen from Bíró
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1943· 1 entry
At the invitation of the President of Argentina, Agustin Justo, who met the inventor in Yugoslavia while on vacation, noticing the unusual writing implement
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1938· 1 entry
Bíró and his wife converted to Lutheranism
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1931· 1 entry
Bíró married to Erzsébet Schick in Terézváros
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1930· 1 entry
Observed children playing with marbles in a puddle, noticing that the marbles left a trail of water in their wake
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1899· 2 entries
Born 1899-09-29.
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To Mózes Mátyás Schweiger and Janka Ullmann
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