28, The First Ball-Pointed Pen

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The First Ball-Pointed Pen.

 

This isn't what you think it is. You probably thought I was going to dredge up the old, familiar standard, the ballpoint in Loud's patent no. 392,046. But the patent I'm really referring to is no. 295,395. It was a steel nib with a curved point "to provide a smooth and flexible curved writing-surface", or tip, and they were marketed under the name "Ball-Pointed Pens". See also UK patent no. 429 in 1883, and US trademark no. 32,598.

 

George Kovalenko.