Henry David Thoreau and his father invented the graphite, which creates very readable text; This became standard in ...

Twist-Erase III Mechanical Pencils feature a sturdy ... grip delivers maximum comfort and control With the jumbo Twist-Up Eraser, you'll suffer no smudges, no paper tears and no ghosts Each ...

The pencil “lead” is actually a mixture of graphite and clay. More clay in the mixture makes the lead harder. A harder lead has a higher number. Pencils are numbered from 1-3 but most people use a ...

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 ...

An electric eraser could also be a timesaver. In the days before computer-aided drawing and the ease of the delete and undo ...

Pencils clack-clack-clack as they shoot through a paint box and assume their various hues. Next is the din of ratcheting as aluminum ferrules and erasers are punched onto ends. Now and then a ...

Pencils, erasers, ballpoint pens - it was always fun to start a new term with a new brace of equipment in your pencil case. And have you ever thought about the history behind those school essentials?

Mitsubishi Pencil, known for its uni brand ballpoint pens, pencils and erasers, offers products mostly priced under 1,000 yen ($6.63). Lamy, established in 1930, mainly markets ballpoint and ...