Gratitude

The Biro is Mightier

I will be back later this week with a couple/few full posts, but today, I wanted to note an interesting anniversary, and thank a couple of fellow substackers.

On this day in 1888, American inventor John J. Loud was granted what is (technically) the first patent for the ball point pen. He was a Harvard-educated lawyer and tanner, who needed to mark a poin…