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 ...

What does Samsung’s Object Eraser do? There are three different tools in Object Eraser’s arsenal: The main Object Eraser mode, plus the option to erase shadows and reflections. At first glance ...

Perfectly designed objects are ... 30 is National Pencil Day, it seems appropriate to give credit where it's due. It's been 158 years since Hymen Lipman first married the eraser to the lead ...

Once a classroom essential, and a symbol of fleeting childhood, the pencil has quietly slipped into the shadows—used more for ...

The eraser was then added in 1858 by Hymen Lipman who patented the idea. Creating different hardness' to pencils was discovered ... rod could be modified. This object is important to me as a ...

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 ...

A pencil eraser (Alexis Madrigal). It's true, as Arthur C. Clarke said, that the most advanced technologies are indistinguishable from magic. It's not true, however, that the world's most magical ...