Quiz | Easy like Sunday morning: Daily physics!

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Quiz | Easy like Sunday morning: Daily physics!
The British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, aka TimBL.
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1 / 10 | On September 29, 1899, Hungarian newspaper editor László Bíró was born. He invented a device because of his frustration with the mess his pens made. It went on to become one of the most abundant plastic items on earth. Since newspaper printing ink dried quickly because it was more viscous, he and his brother devised a ball-and-socket joint to control the flow of that ink onto the paper through a cylinder. What did they invent?
Answer : The ballpoint pen
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