Almanac: The pencil and eraser And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: March 30th, 1858, 156 years ago today . . . the day a Philadelphia inventor made his mark.

Quality control for this iconic pencil has gone downhill, but it’s still the best cheap pencil you can buy, with a decent eraser, smooth writing, and a comfortable grip.

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, was quite ...

Was sticking an eraser on the back of a pencil common sense, or a new invention? zimmytws/iStock On this day in 1868, Philadelphia stationery store owner H.L. Lipman patented something that seems ...

Why buy a pencil and an eraser, or even a pencil with an eraser, when you could have the Eraser Pencil? The design, from Deuk Young Lee of Korea, ditches the wood entirely and replaces it with a ...

WHEN PENCIL MET ERASER Authors: Karen Kilpatrick and Luis O. Ramos Jr. Illustrator: German Blanco Macmillan Imprint, $17.99, ages 4 to 9 The straight-ahead plot of “When Pencil Met Eraser” hi… ...