(WYTV)- Who doesn’t have a ballpoint pen close at hand? A Hungarian Argentine inventor named László Bíró invented the pen as we know it today in 1938. The first patent for a ballpoint pen came out in ...

The idea of perforating the caps of pens appears to have started in the United Kingdom, where a new safety standard was adopted in 1990 (BS 7272). Between 1970 and 1984, nine children in the United ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. No matter what kind of job you work or hobby you engage with, you've probably got a pen or two lying around that you use regularly. Even in ...

In the autumn of 1948, Marcel Bich, owner of a company located north of Paris that produced ink cartridges for fountain pens, pushed a wheelbarrow in his garden in the village of Rhuis. He considered ...

These pens go by many names around the world, but they're known mainly by two monikers. One is "ballpoint pen," which describes the principle behind it, and "biro," which is the name of the man who ...

One of the biggest names in Australian consumer electronics is set to launch a new TV that could just be the world’s thinnest – so slim the pen you wrote your shopping list with might be thicker.

Last month, I wrote a little op-ed about my favorite pens, and the response was … strong. Regardless of whether or not readers agreed with any of my picks (and plenty didn’t), it was great to learn ...