But despite its popularity, the ballpoint pen is relatively new in the history of handwriting, and its influence on popular handwriting is more complicated than the Bic campaign would imply.

A fountain pen cartridge will give you around 7 to 15 pages of writing, whereas a ballpoint pen contains enough ink to write a continuous line four to five kilometres long. So this category is ...

My personal favourite pens are Uni Ball Micro Eye UB-150 (home) and Pilot G2 0.7 (work). I really like UB-150, and have spread them out to family and friends.

Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and yet, it’s one … ...

At $12.50 a pen—around $160 today—the Reynolds International ballpoint wasn’t cheap, but that didn’t stop thousands from queuing up outside Gimbels department store in New York City on Oct ...

Eversharp’s legal attempts to stop them failed, and 70 years ago, on Oct. 29, 1945, the Reynolds pen became the first-ever modern ballpoint pen sold in the U.S..

The ballpoint pen as we know it was patented on June 10, 1943, by brothers László and György Bíró, who sought a cleaner, more reliable alternative to fountain pens.

June 10 is National Ballpoint Pen Day (as well as, for some reason, National Iced Tea Day). The inventor of the ballpoint pen was Hungarian journalist Laszlo Biro, who was also a hypnotist ...

A fountain pen cartridge will give you around 7 to 15 pages of writing, whereas a ballpoint pen contains enough ink to write a continuous line four to five kilometres long. So this category is ...