László Bíró, a Hungarian newspaper editor, was frustrated by the amount of time that he wasted in filling up fountain pens and cleaning up smudged pages, and the sharp tip of his fountain pen often tore the paper.

Since, when tried, this viscous ink would not flow into a regular fountain pen nib, Bíró, with the help of his brother György, a chemist, began to work on designing new types of pens.

The pen was sold in Argentina under the Birome brand ( portmanteau of Bíró and Meyne ), which is how ballpoint pens are still known in that country.

* October 24 – László Bíró, inventor of the ballpoint pen

László was known in Argentina as Ladislao José Bíró.

Lajos Bíró ( born Lajos Blau ) ( 22 August 1880 – 9 September 1948 ) was a Hungarian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who wrote many films from the early 1920s through the late 1940s.

Bíró had noticed that inks used in newspaper printing dried quickly, leaving the paper dry and smudge free.

Bíró filed a British patent on 15 June 1938.

the Bíró brothers and a friend, Juan Jorge Meyne, fled Germany and moved to Argentina.

On 10 June, they filed another patent and formed Bíró Pens of Argentina.

* September 29-László Bíró ( died 1985 ), Hungarian inventor.

* November 24 – László Bíró ( b. 1899 ), Hungarian inventor.

* Screenplaywriters: Lajos Bíró one nomination ( 1929 ), Géza Herczeg one win ( first Hungarian to get an Academy Award ), Emeric Pressburger ( UK ) 4 nominations ( 3 x 1943, 1949 ) / one win ( 1943 ) ( most nomineed Hungarian in screenplay ), Hans Szekely ( as John S. Toldy ) one win, Frank Partos one nomination ( 1948 ), André de Toth one nomination ( 1950 ), Melchior Lengyel one nomination ( 40 ), Robert Pirosh ( US-born ) one win ( 1949 ) and Frank Darabont 2 nominations ( 1994, 99 ).

Proper nouns are not generally counted as English terms except when accepted into the language as an eponym-such as Geiger-Müller tube, or the English terms roentgen after Wilhelm Röntgen, and biro after László Bíró, in which case any diacritical mark is often lost.

At the next editorial meeting, István Bíró ( CEO ), fired the three people making the bid.

A modern resin fountain pen fitted with a vintage nib

Some cartridge-based fountain pens can be fitted with " converters ", which are separate piston / suction reservoirs of the same dimensions as the pen's usual refill cartridge ; these allow the pen to refill from bottled ink.

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

Gaunt scaffoldings adjoined the ruins, and on the ground segments of columns two and a half to three feet in thickness were being fitted with sections cunningly chiseled to match exactly the fluting and proportion of the original.

Presses not fitted with sealed spindle bearings will need a drop of oil now and then in the lubrication holes in the quill.

The ship was a Waco biplane, one of the first two of its type to be fitted with the air cooled, 225/hp Wright radial engine known as the Whirlwind.

In 1609, the Dutch East India Company hired Hudson, gave him two learned geographers, fitted him out with a ship called the Half Moon, and supplied him with Dutch sailors.

At each angle of its pitch a big skylight had been fitted into the roof and all these skylights were fitted with systems of multiple screens and shades.

It wasn't a new boat, about five years old, but fitted with fishing outriggers and chairs.

While the engine installation crew works on the second car, the first car can be moved to the hood station and fitted with a hood, then to the wheels station and be fitted with wheels.

Anchors are sometimes fitted with a tripping line attached to the crown, by which they can be unhooked from rocks or coral.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus exhorts us to " Observe in Alcaeus the sublimity, brevity and sweetness coupled with stern power, his splendid figures, and his clearness which was unimpaired by the dialect ; and above all mark his manner of expressing his sentiments on public affairs ," while Quintilian, after commending Alcaeus for his excellence " in that part of his works where he inveighs against tyrants and contributes to good morals ; in his language he is concise, exalted, careful and often like an orator ;" goes on to add: " but he descended into wantonnness and amours, though better fitted for higher things.

Conversely, British English favours fitted as the past tense of fit generally, whereas the preference of American English is more complex: AmEng prefers fitted for the metaphorical sense of having made an object " fit " ( i. e., suited ) for a purpose ; in spatial transitive contexts, AmEng uses fitted for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that it surrounds ( e. g., " fitted X around Y ") but fit for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that surrounds it ( e. g., " fit X into Y "); and for the spatial senses ( both intransitive and transitive ) of having been matching with respect to contour, with no alteration of either object implied, AmEng prefers fit (" The clothes fit.

Disaster relief helicopters are almost always fitted with video / FLIR systems to allow them to monitor and coordinate real-time relief efforts.

Actress Olive Logan commented that some actors were " marvelously well fitted by nature for it, having well-defined soprano voices, plump shoulders, beardless faces, and tiny hands and feet.

:"… all the companies were clad in iron, and all parts of their bodies were covered with thick plates, so fitted that the stiff-joints conformed with those of their limbs ; and the forms of human faces were so skillfully fitted to their heads, that since their entire body was covered with metal, arrows that fell upon them could lodge only where they could see a little through tiny openings opposite the pupil of the eye, or where through the tip of their nose they were able to get a little breath.

Where detailed information is needed on individual movements, tiny radio transmitters can be fitted on to birds.

Early export market cars were fitted with tiny chrome cover plates to hide the holes left on top of the front fenders by the Japanese market rear view mirrors.

Sky Sports have also used a player cam ; a tiny camera was fitted to Dennis Priestley's shirt to capture his view of the action while playing.

* Glow-Chucks, made either with fiberglass and a coloured light fitted in the ball bearing or fluorescent tape wrapped around the sticks.

The original musket bullet was a spherical lead ball smaller than the bore, wrapped in a loosely fitted paper patch which served to hold the bullet in the barrel firmly upon the powder.

Airey Neave was killed on 30 March 1979, when a magnetic car bomb fitted with a ball bearing tilt switch exploded under his Vauxhall Cavalier at 2: 58 p. m. as he drove out of the Palace of Westminster car park.

In this case the ends of the string are fitted with a ball, cube or similar which stops the string from slipping out too easily.

A circular capacitor B, 7. 7 cm in diameter, built from multiple layers of mica and tinfoil, was fitted into a smooth spherical celluloid ball D that was covered with conductive paint, and which was suspended by a fine phosphor-bronze wire 37 cm long within a grounded tube.

The ball bearing on the turbine axle had been modified to reduce friction, the ECU had been retuned for better response, and an intercooler water spray was fitted to prevent rise in the air temperature.

Bonneville said that Moore was riding a Suriray bicycle specially built by Tribout, fitted with ball bearings, rubber tyres 48¼-inch and 15¾-inch wheels with metal rims.

The anonymous authors of the series ' Pioneers of the Cycle Industry ' in Bicycling News said that Moore rode a heavy wooden Michaux fitted with solid rubber tyres which were secured to the wheel rims by means of sheet-iron braces screwed to the latter, and his machine embodied a type of ball bearing which had been more or less handmade by a Parisian manufacturer ...

Also as a direct result of competition experience, the Series II was fitted with larger front brakes and a recirculating ball steering box instead of the rather vague worm and nut box of the Series I.

In the initial fifth of the production run, the ventral bathtub gun emplacement of the C and D versions was replaced by a remote-sighted Bendix turret, very similar to the unit placed on the B-25B Mitchell medium bomber of the same period, which proved to be a disappointment in usability, resulting in the remaining E-series aircraft being fitted with a Sperry ball turret, to be used for all succeeding B-17 versions.

They were fitted with a double thrust ball race, which enabled them to be used either as a pusher or as a tractor engine.

Browning. 303 in ( 7. 7 mm ) machine gun fitted in ball mount.

The entire length of the device is fitted with " ball joints ," vacuum-tight angular couplings ( invented by a LaPD staff member ) which allow probes to be inserted and rotated, both vertically and horizontally.

Including the ball joints, there are a total of 450 access ports on the machine, many of which are fitted with windows for optical or microwave observation.

:" WHEREAS it is necessary, in this time of danger, that the militia of this colony should be well regulated and disciplined ... And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That every person so as aforesaid inlisted ( except free mulattoes, negroes, and Indians ) shall be armed in the manner following, that is to say: Every soldier shall he furnished with a firelock well fixed, a bayonet fitted to the same, a double cartouch-box, and three charges of powder, and constantly appear with the same at the time and place appointed for muster and exercise, and shall also keep at his place of abode one pound of powder and four pounds of ball, and bring the same with him into the field when he shall be required ... And for the better training and exercising the militia, and rendering them more serviceable, Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That every captain shall, once in three months, and oftner if thereto required by the lieutenant or chief commanding officer in the county, muster, train, and exercise his company, and the lieutenant or other chief commanding officer in the county shall cause a general muster and exercise of all the companies within his county, to be made in the months of March or April, and September or October, yearly ; and if any soldier shall, at any general or private muster, refuse to perform the command of his officer, or behave himself refractorily or mutinously, or misbehave himself at the courts martial to be held in pursuance of this act, as is herein after directed, it shall and may be lawful to and for the chief commanding officer, then present, to cause such offender to be tied neck and heels, for any time not exceeding five minutes, or inflict such corporal punishment as he shall think fit, not exceeding twenty lashes ..." — An Act for the better regulating and disciplining the Militia, April 1757

His ability to kick the ball some considerable distance fitted in well with the style of play Wimbledon were known for in the 1980s, nor was he afraid to move out of the area and upfield before kicking the ball, or in order to take free kicks.

His aerial prowess fitted well with the long ball style of the team.

However, practical problems were experienced with components quickly suffering from premature wear, especially in the main bearing of the large 2: 1 lever which had not yet been fitted with the very necessary ball race ; excessive ' play ' led to so much over-travel of the middle valve, that it began to hit the end-covers.