Pencils are no longer used in space either ... where employees put together and package the pens. The modern biro was invented in 1941 by a news editor in Hungary called László Bíró.

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 ...

First things first, its staying power is superb. When I wore this pencil to a bachelorette party in June (a.k.a in peak Manhattan heat), it was the only product on my face that didn’t smudge or ...

Hymen Lipman is credited with registering the first patent for a pencil with an attached eraser in 1858. A few years later, Lipman sold his patent to Joseph Reckendorfer, who went on to sue the pencil ...

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Robin Biro is a Democratic strategist and LGBT rights activist who worked as a regional director on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and was a Hillary Clinton delegate at the 2016 ...

Pencils, erasers, ballpoint pens - it was always fun to start a new term with a new brace of equipment in your pencil case. And have you ever thought about the history behind those school essentials?

Meghan M. Biro is a talent management leader, career strategist and digital media catalyst. As founder and CEO of TalentCulture Consulting Group, Meghan has worked with hundreds of companies ...

Or maybe it was that regardless, eventually you got to use a pen instead of a pencil. I remember being stoked to write in thin lines of indelible blue ink instead of fuzzy, erasable graphite.

To limit the risk of a cheque being tampered with, it’s sensible to use a black biro – never pencil, or the kind of ink that can easily be erased – and use large lettering to fill up as much ...