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 ...

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Perfectly designed objects are hard to find. But since March 30 is National Pencil Day, it seems appropriate to give credit where it's due. It's been 158 years since Hymen Lipman first married the ...

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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 ...

So long, sack lunch! Commercial lunch boxes debuted in 1902 and resembled metal picnic baskets. Later styles included illustrations and patterns, like this 1970s plaid prize valued at $45. 1. ERASER ...