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The trade name \u201cBiro\u201d is forever etched in the memory of officer workers everywhere in the Western world.<\/p>\n
But exactly who was Mr Biro?<\/p>\n
Laszlo Biro was the son of a Jewish dentist born in Budapest in 1899, and his career began in the army as a trainee officer during World War I.<\/p>\n
After the war ended, Biro followed in the footsteps of his elder brother and studied medicine, but he got side-tracked working as a hypnotist. He discovered that hypnotism was a great money-spinner and couldn\u2019t be bothered to finish his medical training.<\/p>\n
But his highly active entrepreneurial mind soon got bored with hypnotism too, and he began a whole series of career moves, becoming an insurance salesman next and then a book publisher.<\/p>\n
He worked for a company selling oil and then managed to invent an automatic gearbox with a friend.<\/p>\n
The pair signed a contract with General Motors to carry on their research, although the design didn\u2019t result in an end product.<\/p>\n
While working for General Motors, Biro also worked as a weekly newspaper reporter to help bring in extra cash, and at the same time began working with his brother on developing a ballpoint pen.<\/p>\n
It took more than a decade to perfect the prototype, but finally the Biro pen was launched in the UK in 1945 by the Miles-Martin Pen Company, and the rest, as they say, is history.<\/p>\n
A staggering 100 billion biros have been sold since 1950 – and even today, with a much greater choice of pens available to the consumer, 57 Bic Biros are purchased every second!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The trade name \u201cBiro\u201d is forever etched in the memory of officer workers everywhere in the Western world. But exactly who was Mr Biro? Laszlo Biro was the son of a Jewish dentist born in Budapest in 1899, and his career began in the army as a trainee officer during World War I. After the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Pens_and_Pencils"],"yoast_head":"\n