BIC Cristal Original Ballpoint Pens, Every-Day Biro Pens with Medium Point (1.0mm), Blue Ink, Pack of 10

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Author Philip Hensher, who also runs a creative writing course at Bath Spa University in the UK, wrote a 2012 book on handwriting called The Missing Ink in which he praised the ballpoint pen. He says Bic not only found the way to produce vast quantities cheaply, but crucially hit upon a winning design right from the start. “If you have a product that needs no improvement – only tiny changes have been made to the Bic pens since the 1960s – you probably don’t have a lot of overheads.” In January 1954 Parker Pens introduced it's first ballpoint pen called "The Jotter". It had many qualities that put it above its rivals but the most important was that it worked. Most houses in the UK probably have a vast number of pens; some will be new, some will be old and dried up, some with just a tiny bit of ink left in them. war had begun. In 1950 he started BIC, dropping the H in his name. He approached the Biro brothers and arranged to pay them a royalty on their patent. Bich then took two years developing his clear-barreled, smooth-writing, non-leaky, cheap ballpoint

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On 29 October 1945, the New York City branch of Gimbels department store unveiled a new product. Billions upon billions would follow in its wake. How often have you thrown away a Biro? I'm willing to bet that you cannot recall doing it very often if at all, and you would not be alone, so if By the late 1950' BIC held 70% of the european market and by 1960 it had bought 100% of its american rival Waterman Pens and began to sell BIC ballpoint pens in the USA.to have the correct ink for the purpose, and he and his brother set about formulating better inks to use in their newly designed pens. Produced since 1950, the Cristal has sold in mind-boggling quantities: it notched up 100 billion sales by 2006. It is such an everyday object that its strengths are easy to overlook. it worked at high altitudes which a fountain pen did not, and it did not have to be refilled frequently. The US State Department asked several US pen manufacturers to develop a similar pen. In an are produced every second where do they all go? Do they have the power of invisibility? or the ability to travel through time? It is one of life's Kids can safely use them at school, no ink splatters on school uniform, no blobs of ink on text books.

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you would get for 10p? Leaky and unreliable? The Bic Biro is clean, reliable, long lasting and because of theBallpoint pen manufacturers are aware of this plastic pollution crisis. Bic themselves make a range of pens produced from 74% recycled plastic. More producers are promoting the idea of refills for plastic pens, and not just the metal ones that come with premium price tags. Other pen manufacturers have replaced the plastic body with tubes made of cardboard, or metal – the very material the first premium ballpoints were made of more than seven decades ago. Simply adding fountain pen ink to a ballpoint pen was not the solution, however. The ink itself needed to be rethought. The simple design is classless, no one would be embarassed to be seen writing with a Bic. It is the pen of the people.