A ballpoint pen is an essential tool in our daily lives, but it can be frustrating when it stops working suddenly. Most people usually discard a dry ballpoint pen and replace it with a new one.

Would you pay $180 for a new type of writing instrument? Image via The New York Times On a crisp fall morning in late October 1945, approximately 5,000 shoppers rushed the 32 nd street Gimbel’s ...

If you ever have a pen that just won't write, a bit of heat can get it working good as new again. Oftentimes, that "dead" pen isn't dead at all, just a little clogged up—usually with dry ink. ClueDB ...

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 of the most unsung ...

Fountain pens were a stylish statement but messy and impractical. Their replacement was a stroke of design genius perfectly in time for the era of mass production. On 29 October 1945, the New York ...

__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. Lewis Waterman's invention of ...

Here is one no one can answer: how to restart ink flowing in a ballpoint pen after non-use. This has everyone stumped, so if you can’t answer, that’s OK. At the Alice Research Institute, nearly ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta- An Indonesian renowned author Pramoedya Ananta Toer once said that to write is to work for eternity. Through writing, a person is able to articulate their ideas and knowledge that ...