“Everyone makes mistakes,” your mom told you. “That’s why pencils have erasers.” But did she ever tell you how many different kinds of erasers there are? If you think there’s just the one—the pink ...

The store displays were picked over by the time Mary Lucca went school supply shopping for the first time. It was nearly impossible to find the brand of crayons called for on the list and ...

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And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: March 30th, 1858, 156 years ago today . . . the day a Philadelphia inventor made his mark. For that was the day Hyman Lipman patented the first pencil ...

It's easy to forget that your school supplies are fancy pieces of technology. Especially in a world with laptops, tablets and smartphones. Let's take a look back at the history behind the "old school" ...

A pencil without an eraser is just asking for trouble You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products ...

Every day I take out my mechanical pencil and my Pink Pearl eraser and place them on the desk in front of me before I start my schoolwork. My eraser, though it was originally a perfect parallelepiped ...

Philadelphia inventor Hymen L. Lipman rushed heroically to the aid of mistake-prone schoolchildren, draftsmen and artists everywhere when he secured the patent for the pencil with eraser on this day ...

A series where we share products that are so good we would do an entire infomercial about it. (But instead, we published this review.) Read more here. Plum Sykes is the author of Wives Like Us (Harper ...