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10 cool facts about the ballpoint pen
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What are we, in fact, we know about the pen? Editorial searched his memory and took out only one fact, and that well-known - they often steal colleagues! But maybe we do not know everything? ..
1. In 1945, New York sold the first batch of ballpoint pens. The excitement at the same time was so great that the authorities had put up a police cordon! On this day, it was sold 10 000 pens for $ 12 apiece - about the same amount received at the time the American worker for the entire working day
2. However, just two years of severe competition of the two largest manufacturers of pens cost of production has decreased to such an extent that the price of a ballpoint pen has fallen by 24 times and was 50 cents.
3. It is interesting that initially the rod handle was folded in an accordion, climbed to more ink. But straight rod was much easier and cheaper to produce, so it survived the evolutionary selection.
4. Every second in the world selling 125 pens. On average.
5. Pen called the "ball" in all countries: ballpoint pen - in English, bolígrafo - Spanish, penna a sfera - Italian, Kugelschreiber - in German. The only exception is Argentina, where the handle is called birami (Beer), in honor of Laszlo Biro, its inventor.
6. Man uses up, on average, four knobs for the year. One pen can write about 50 000 words.
7. American Paul Fisher nearly half a century ago, invented the Space Pen - a pen that can write in zero gravity, the water at the surface and greasy like a lot more. The trick in solid ink, which are diluted directly into the writing process.
8. The most expensive pen, entered in the Guinness Book of Records - platinum Montegrappa, the cost of which amounts to one million euros.
9. Collecting pens called stilofiliey.
10. According to statistics, every year more than a hundred people die, choking on the cap of a ballpoint pen. Never take it in your mouth!
via factroom.ru
1. In 1945, New York sold the first batch of ballpoint pens. The excitement at the same time was so great that the authorities had put up a police cordon! On this day, it was sold 10 000 pens for $ 12 apiece - about the same amount received at the time the American worker for the entire working day
2. However, just two years of severe competition of the two largest manufacturers of pens cost of production has decreased to such an extent that the price of a ballpoint pen has fallen by 24 times and was 50 cents.
3. It is interesting that initially the rod handle was folded in an accordion, climbed to more ink. But straight rod was much easier and cheaper to produce, so it survived the evolutionary selection.
4. Every second in the world selling 125 pens. On average.
5. Pen called the "ball" in all countries: ballpoint pen - in English, bolígrafo - Spanish, penna a sfera - Italian, Kugelschreiber - in German. The only exception is Argentina, where the handle is called birami (Beer), in honor of Laszlo Biro, its inventor.
6. Man uses up, on average, four knobs for the year. One pen can write about 50 000 words.
7. American Paul Fisher nearly half a century ago, invented the Space Pen - a pen that can write in zero gravity, the water at the surface and greasy like a lot more. The trick in solid ink, which are diluted directly into the writing process.
8. The most expensive pen, entered in the Guinness Book of Records - platinum Montegrappa, the cost of which amounts to one million euros.
9. Collecting pens called stilofiliey.
10. According to statistics, every year more than a hundred people die, choking on the cap of a ballpoint pen. Never take it in your mouth!
via factroom.ru
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