Ticonderoga Pencil It’s just a pencil but it took centuries to create an electronic one that sometimes works as well but never leaves the faint image that hauntingly remains as a clue to your first thought. The pencil is the first word processor with a built-in delete feature, the eraser! The material the eraser is made from got its name because it RUBS out pencil marks, hence the name RUBBER. Seems almost too simple an invention, but National Pencil Day, March 30th celebrates the day in 1858 that Hymen Lipman patented his invention for a pencil with an eraser attached to one end. Unlike most pens, the pencil’s length always tells you just how much writing you have left as you slowly whittle away at its length, expressing thoughts filing blanks on tests, chewing the end waiting for that though. Making marks on paper somehow easier for people if they know they can erase or change those marks. Pencils let us second guess our selves much better than most writing instruments although the computer lets us wipe out whole paragraphs with ease. Most pencils are made from two wood halves hollowed out to receive a mixture of graphite and clay, […]
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