An eraser isn’t called an eraser by eraser manufacturers. Their name for the little erasers on pencil ends - “plugs!” ...

A portion of a vast, more than 5,000-pencil collection is on display at the Haverhill Public Library Jay Hurd, formerly of ...

There are some inventions that look completely pointless to the untrained eye: who would ever need a motorized garbage can, an electric pencil sharpener or a battery-powered eraser? Quite often ...

The eraser was then added in 1858 by Hymen Lipman who patented the idea. Creating different hardness' to pencils was discovered by Nicholas Jacques Conté. Mixing powdered graphite with clay and ...