CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Hungarian brothers, Laszlo and George Biro, made the first ball point pen in 1894. It followed the first workable fountain pen which was invented by L.E. Waterman in 1884.

Detailed explanation-2: -1943: Brothers László and Georg B&#237ró, Hungarian refugees living in Argentina, patent the ballpoint pen. A half-century-old idea is coming to commercial fruition.

Detailed explanation-3: -Though Milton Reynolds, an American entrepreneur introduced the ballpoint pen in India in 1947, it was not until 1962 that a businessman from Rajkot, Dhirajlal Mohanlal Joshi, got the approval to make ballpoint pen ink in the country.

Detailed explanation-4: -The pen may be mightier than the sword, but when Jewish-Hungarian journalist László Bíró invented the ballpoint pen in the 1930s clichéd sayings were probably the last thing on his mind.