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The humble ballpoint pen has become a new symbol of China’s innovation economy — Quartz

Posted on May 9, 2017 by Shawn Mihalik

The humble ballpoint pen has become a new symbol of China’s innovation economy — Quartz

Fascinating. And there’s  some great stuff here about the surprising difficulty of manufacturing ball point pens.

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