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Anne Frank's diary was NOT written in ballpoint pen, because they were not for sale until AFTER 1945. Anne Frank was arrested in 1944.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 84210277:MV84MTUyNjlfOTYzOTkxOTdfN0UzNEMxRUQ=] [quote:Anonymous Coward 648447:MV84MTUyNjlfQkJCMzIxMzI=] Some say Anne Frank's diary was written with a ballpoint pen. THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE. Ballpoint pens came out in 1945 - WHEN World War II was OVER. Anne Frank wrote her diary before then. She and her family were arrested in 1944. Eversharp, a maker of mechanical pencils teamed up with Eberhard-Faber in [b]May 1945 [/b]to license the ballpoint pen design for sales in the United States. At about the same time a U.S. businessman saw a Biro pen in a store in Buenos Aires. He purchased several samples and returned to the U.S. to found the Reynolds International Pen Company, producing the Biro design without license as the Reynolds Rocket. He managed to beat Eversharp to market in late [b]1945[/b]; the first ballpoint pens went on sale at Gimbels department store in New York City on 29 October [b]1945[/b] for US$12.50 each. This pen was widely known as the rocket in the U.S. into the late 1950s. Similar pens went on sale before the end of the year in England, and by the next year in most of Europe. [/quote] :bsmeter2: [b]Bíró's innovation successfully coupled ink-viscosity with a ball-socket mechanism Bíró filed a British patent on 15 June 1938. In 1941, the Bíró brothers and a friend, Juan Jorge Meyne, fled Germany and moved to Argentina, where they formed "Bíró Pens of Argentina" and filed a new patent in 1943.[1] Their pen was sold in Argentina as the "Birome" from the names Bíró and Meyne, which is how ballpoint pens are still known in that country.[/b] [/quote]
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Some say Anne Frank's diary was written with a ballpoint pen. THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE. Ballpoint pens came out in 1945 - WHEN World War II was OVER. Anne Frank wrote her diary before then. She and her family were arrested in 1944.
Eversharp, a maker of mechanical pencils teamed up with Eberhard-Faber in
May 1945
to license the ballpoint pen design for sales in the United States.
At about the same time a U.S. businessman saw a Biro pen in a store in Buenos Aires. He purchased several samples and returned to the U.S. to found the Reynolds International Pen Company, producing the Biro design without license as the Reynolds Rocket. He managed to beat Eversharp to market in late
1945
; the first ballpoint pens went on sale at Gimbels department store in New York City on 29 October
1945
for US$12.50 each. This pen was widely known as the rocket in the U.S. into the late 1950s.
Similar pens went on sale before the end of the year in England, and by the next year in most of Europe.
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