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 ...

The history of erasers dates back to the 1770s, when bread was the primary tool used to erase pencil markings. People would ...

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 ...

No matter, because on the other end of your writing implement sits its perfect counterbalance, that predecessor to the delete key: the eraser. Only when you flip over your pencil and rub ...