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Fw: Ball point pens
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George Myers <[log in to unmask]>
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HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:51:28 -0400
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----- Original Message -----
From: "George Myers" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: Ball point pens


> There was a story in the Time-Life series books of science that the
inventor
> of the Xerox process first invented the ballpoint pen but failed to file a
> patent for it. Mssr. "Bic" made quite a fortune with the pen and lighter
> business (seen first in Belgium according to a social anthropologist ca.
> 1973?) and challenged the Amerca Cup sailboat race in the late 1970's.
> ("Quest").
>
> George Myers, Jr.
>

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