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 ...

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 ...

This inexpensive pencil is made of premium incense cedar. It is comfortable to hold, has a neatly painted exterior, and its eraser removes marks cleanly. Quality control for this iconic pencil has ...

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 ...

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