E126 ERASERS
- FACTORALY
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Bruce is correcting mistakes. Simon is pencilling in
Erasers have been around for longer than you might think - actually, even before pencils. This week, we're going into erasers in depth. As always, click on the pics and links to ink in so facts on erasers.
Priestley's First Rubber.
The Borrodale Motherlode of 'Lead'
How Rubbers Work
Palimpsests
How an Etch-a-Sketch Works
Charles Goodyear & Vulcanisation
French Eraser Students
Making an Eraser
The Eraser-tipped Pencil
The Erased Royal Navy Chart Islands
Blackboard Erasers
Whiteboard Erasers
Betty Graham & Liquid Paper
The Derwent Pencil Museum
Eraser Records
Largest Collection of Erasers: Petra Engels from Germany has held this record since 1981, collecting 19,571 non-duplicate erasers from 112 countries.
Longest Eraser Shaving: Created by Masamitsu Tanaka in Tokyo, Japan, on March 8, 2014, using a Mono eraser.
Largest Eraser Sentence: Created by Sprix Inc. in Tokyo, Japan, on June 9, 2024, using 2,091 erasers.
Fastest Time to Set Up and Topple 5 Erasers: Achieved in 2.40 seconds by Lim Kai Yi in Malaysia on October 20, 2023.
Largest Pencil-Eraser: A 0.762-meter long eraser was part of a record-setting pencil made by Ashrita Furman in 2007.
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