An eraser isn’t called an eraser by eraser manufacturers. Their name for the little erasers on pencil ends - “plugs!” ...

Twist-Erase III Mechanical Pencils feature ... stabilizes lead to reduce lead breakage Latex-free grip delivers maximum comfort and control With the jumbo Twist-Up Eraser, you'll suffer no smudges ...

But the eraser? What was so problematic about the ... adapted to the purpose of wiping from paper the marks of a black-lead-pencil.” By the late 1770s, cubes of caoutchouc were generally known ...

Next is the din of ratcheting as aluminum ferrules and erasers are punched ... A set of classic carpenter pencils, with their handy rectangular shape and a versatile broad lead.

and stomping every pencil in his path. Time stood still for a long moment, the air thick with shards of yellow wood, splintered chunks of lead, and bright pink bits of rubber eraser. At the center ...

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 ...

Pencils, erasers, ballpoint pens - it was always fun ... Some styluses were made of lead, which became popular - but as the centuries rolled on, graphite found favour from the mid-1500s as it ...

Back then, the inventor enlarged part of the groove that housed the pencil lead, enabling the eraser to slot in. Image caption, We can all make mistakes, and that’s one of the reasons ferrules ...