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On this day in 1888, Massachusetts inventor John Loud secured the first patent for a ballpoint pen. A part-time leather tanner, Loud wanted a pen that could write on hides — something fountain pens couldn't do. What his pen didn't do well, though, was write on paper. It took roughly another 40 years before Hungarian news editor László Bíró perfected the modern version we use today.
