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Ballpoint was invented in 1888, around 40 years earlier: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballpoint_pen https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballpoint_pen
by bittcto 8y ago
Ballpoint was invented in 1888, around 40 years earlier:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballpoint_pen https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballpoint_pen
- patrickg_zill 8y agoWikipedia seems to indicate that commercial production started in 1943, in Argentina.
- debacle 8y agoIs the insinuation that Nazis wrote Anne Frank's diary?
- patrickg_zill 8y agoNo, not at all.
- t3soro 8y agoThe suggestion is that it was edited posthumously, perhaps embellished by her father. These sorts of facts all apparently fall under the banishable offense of Holocaust denial, (a sacred religious belief), which is why the whole suggestion of making historical topics for discussion illegal is insane.
- patrickg_zill 8y agoNot really a fan of the NYT but this article seems to lay out most of the issues around the book. The diary as originally presented to the public, was edited by Otto Frank: https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/08/books/an-authenticated-edition-of-anne-frank-s-diary.html https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/08/books/an-authenticated-ed...
- dang 8y agoWe've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dragonwriter 8y agoNo, it doesn't; it explicitly mentions (though does not name) commercial efforts prior to that starting early in the 20th C that failed to be commercial successes because of various issues with ink, etc., and that the first successful line, from later ballpoints derive, began production in 1943 in Argentina. Just because they weren't commercially successful doesn't mean there weren't people who had then and used them.