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Pencil


1953 Wrestler Freddie Blassie coins term "Pencil neck geek"

1897 Pencil sharpener patented by J L Love

1895 Frederick E. Blaisdell patents the pencil

1866 Indelible pencil patents by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass

1858 Pencil with attached eraser patented by Hyman L. Lipman

1822 John Eberhard, built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US

1755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, inventor, modern pencil


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