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 ...

Apple recently added an exciting update to its website. The iPhone maker introduced a unique interactive teaser for its upcoming "Let Loose" event scheduled for May 7. Interestingly, the teaser ...

Rubbers are a staple part of any pencil case when you're going back to school - but it turns out we may have all been using them wrong for years. There has been much online debate over how to ...

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 ...

You’re using pencil, fast and furious, to scribble notes when you make a mistake. Maybe after all these years you’re still mixing up b’s and d’s. No matter, because on the other end of your writing ...

“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 ...