Ballpoint: A Tale of Genius and Grit, Perilous Times, and the Invention that Changed the Way We Write
By Gyoergy Moldova.
Description
The triumphs and the trials of the men who invented the modern ballpoint pen as they battled corporate greed, dark eras--and each other.László Bíró's last name is, in much of the world, a synonym for his revolutionary writing tool. But few people know that Bíró began his career in interwar Budapest as a journalist frustrated with spotty ink; that he escaped fascism by fleeing to Paris and, finally, to Buenos Aires; that a fellow Hungarian, Andor Goy, also played a vital role in the pen's development--and that, in a tragic twist of shared f...
ISBN(s)
0982578113, 9780982578117
