And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: March 30th, 1858, 156 years ago today . . . the day a Philadelphia inventor made his mark. For that was the day Hyman Lipman patented the first pencil ...

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Philadelphia inventor Hymen L. Lipman rushed heroically to the aid of mistake-prone schoolchildren, draftsmen and artists everywhere when he secured the patent for the pencil with eraser on this day ...

Before the discovery of the eraser, people did use bread and bread crumbs to erase pencil marks. Edward Nairne is credited with popularizing the use of rubber, which by his own account, was quite ...

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Every day I take out my mechanical pencil and my Pink Pearl eraser and place them on the desk in front of me before I start my schoolwork. My eraser, though it was originally a perfect parallelepiped ...

EVERY SCHOOLROOM ON THE PLANET (WHTM) — National Pencil Day celebrates a piece of technology so commonplace we rarely stop to consider how remarkable it is. Specifically, it marks the day in 1858 when ...