Instead, it more closely resembles modern mechanical pencils, which still have tiny erasers. Before Lipman came along, people would use separate erasers to correct their errors. (In Europe ...

Written by Karen Kilpatrick and Luis O. Ramos Jr. Illustrated by German Blanco Ages 3–6 “When Pencil Met Eraser,” by Karen Kilpatrick and Luis O. Ramos Jr. This hilariously illustrated book ...

In 1822, a British man named Sampson Mordan invented the first mechanical pencil. And it would change the game for writing tools. Erasing things before the invention of erasers was tough.