GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

INVENTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who invented the BALLPOINT PEN?
A
Biro Brothers
B
Waterman Brothers
C
Bicc Brothers
D
Write Brothers
Explanation: 

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: -Ladislao José Biro, who is honored in today’s Google Doodle for what would have been his 117th birthday, invented something mundane but transformative: the modern ballpoint pen. Biro (whose first name is sometimes written as László) invented the ballpoint in 1938.

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