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Ballpoint: A Tale of Genius and Grit, Perilous Times, and the Invention that Changed the Way We Write by David Evans, Gyoergy Moldova (Paperback, 2012)
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The triumphs and the trials of the men who invented the modern ballpoint pen as they battled corporate greed, dark eras--and each other. Laszlr Biro's last name is, in much of the world, a synonym for his revolutionary writing tool. But few people know that Bhro began his career in interwar Budapest as a journalist frustrated with spotty ink; that he escaped fascism by fleeing to Paris and, finally, to Buenos Aires; that a fellow Hungarian, Andor Goy, also played a vital role in the pen's development--and that, in a tragic twist of shared fate, business pressures and politics ultimately deprived both men of their rights to the ballpoint pen. Taking us from Hitler's Europe in 1938, to Argentina, where Biro settled, and to Communist-era Hungary, where Goy lived out his life, Ballpoint is a painstakingly researched, absorbing narrative that reads simultaneously like a work of history and a novel.Product Identifiers
PublisherNew Europe Books
ISBN-139780982578117
eBay Product ID (ePID)115735236
Product Key Features
Number of Pages200 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBallpoint: A Tale of Genius and Grit, Perilous Times, and the Invention that Changed the Way We Write
Publication Year2012
SubjectArchaeology, Science, Evolution
TypeTextbook
AuthorDavid Evans, Gyoergy Moldova
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height229 mm
Item Weight277 g
Item Width153 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorGyoergy Moldova, David Evans
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