Mariann Bíró, who lives in Buenos Aires, is one of the most influential people in the Argentine-Hungarian community, so in addition to her famous father, this was also the reason why the prime minister visited her.
Viktor Orbán, who is in Argentina - the prime minister traveled to Buenos Aires because he will participate in the inauguration of the country's new president, Javier Milei, on Sunday, December 10 - met Mariann Bíró, who is the daughter of László Bíró, the inventor of the ballpoint pen.
The ballpoint pen seems like a very simple structure, yet many people have not succeeded in creating it, even though Galileo Galilei has already tried it. László Bíró has made indelible merits in creating a tool with the help of which
you can write continuously and beautifully, and it is no exaggeration to say that the whole world uses it.
According to Wikipedia, Bíró fled to Paris at the end of 1938 due to the Jewish laws in Hungary, and then emigrated to Argentina with his brother and a friend, György János Meyne, where, after further experiments with ink, he received the patent for his pen on June 10, 1943, forming Bíró Pens of Argentina company and started serial production from 1942 under the name Eterpen, from 1943 Stratopen and later, from 1944, under the name Birome (Bíró és Meyne).
The ballpoint pen still bears his name in many countries: in Spanish it is called birome, in French it is biron, and in English it is sometimes called biro-pen.
Mariann Bíró, who lives in Buenos Aires, is one of the most influential people in the Argentine-Hungarian community,
so, in addition to the famous father, this was also the reason why Viktor Orbán visited him. Both the prime minister and the old woman were very happy for each other and had a long conversation in a pleasant atmosphere.
Source and featured image: Mandiner
