For that was the day Hyman Lipman patented the first pencil with its own eraser . . .a strip of rubber embedded in the end that had to be sharpened just like the graphite point. Lipman sold his ...

But to return to that moment when I lifted the pencil from the box: It was weighty, and when I put the extender over the eraser cap on the end, it balanced the pencil perfectly. I was ecstatic.

Supplies included tissues, personal hand sanitizers, large hand sanitizers, crayons, erasers, folders, rulers, dry erase markers, pencil cap erasers and pencil boxes. “We are incredibly grateful ...

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 in history, March 30 ...

What could be more magic, after all, than the eraser—the little wad of rubber that undoes your mistakes and changes, mark by tiny little pencil mark, human history? 1. The original erasers were ...