Who invent Ballpoint pen.... Biro's 177th birthday and Google is honouring the occasion with a Doodle.

Who was Ladislao José Biro, how did he invent the ballpoint pen and how did it help in World War II?

Invented as the Second World War was about to begin in 1938, the biro takes its name from its creator Ladislao José Biro.
Biro, who was born in 1899, was a sometime journalist, painter and inventor who was frustrated with fountain pens blotting and smudging. He got the idea on a visit to a newspaper printing press, which used quick-drying ink and a roller.

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