Assertion: ballpoint pen | /r/HasProperty | patented
Facets:
value: in 1888
type: TEMPORAL
value: on october
type: TEMPORAL
value: by john j. loud
type: OTHER
value: in the late nineteenth century
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Even though ballpoint pens were first patented in the late nineteenth century, they only started to reach commercial significance in the early 1950s.
text: Just four years later, the first ballpoint pen was patented; however, it took nearly sixty years for this invention to take over the writing instrument market.
text: Judea dated around 100 BC; copper nib that was used in Pompeii dated year 79; pen with a reservoir, also in Egypt year 953; a later reservoir pen that was developed by a German and made with two quills in 1636; fountain pen that was patented by the French government in May 1827; ballpoint pen that was first patented on October 30, 1888; mechanical pencil (automatic pen) and solid-ink fountain pen developed in Austria-Hungary dated year 1906 and 1907 respectively; fiber or felt-tipped pen invented by Yukio Horie of Japan in the 1960; and the rollerball pen that was first introduced in early 1970’s.
text: The ballpoint pen was first patented in 1888 by John J. Loud, a leather tanner who needed a pen that would write on his leather products.