Henry David Thoreau and his father invented the graphite, which creates very readable text; This became standard in classrooms and is the world's first #2 pencil.

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

A machine punches erasers into aluminum ferrules at the ends of pencils at the Musgrave factory ... after finding a new local source of eastern red cedar, Musgrave started selling its Tennessee ...

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 ...

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?