Bic Abundance

Since 1945 the time price of a ballpoint pen for unskilled workers has fallen from 25 hours to 27 seconds.

On October 29th 1945, Gimbels department store in New York City unveiled a new kind of ink pen made by the Reynolds International Pen Company. It was called a “ball-point” pen and promised to not smear or leave pools of ink. The day the pen went on sale, an estimated 5,000 shoppers stormed the shop, and approximately 50 NYPD officers had to be dispatche…