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 ...