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 ...

News; US News; Umm what? People are only just discovering proper meaning behind the two colours on a rubber We have been using them since childhood, but it turns out the blue part of an eraser isn ...

6. Pencils with built-in erasers on the tops are a largely American phenomenon. Most pencils sold in Europe are eraser-less.Read into that cultural difference what you will.

On Rubber Eraser Day, somebody else shared a 2013 piece from The Atlantic, telling us 10 things we probably didn't know about eraser technology. Among the tidbits from this article was that "rubber" ...

No longer do rubber erasers dry out quite as fast. “Even the Pink Pearl, which is one of my favorite erasers even though it doesn’t really work that well, they’ve made it softer.

4. "Rubber" actually gets its name from erasers. It was Priestley who is generally credited for naming rubber. The erasing "substance" he described in 1770 -- initially referred to as "India gum ...