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A mechanical pencil or clutch pencil is a pencil with a replaceable and mechanically extendable solid pigment core called a "lead" / ˈ l ɛ d /. The lead, often made of graphite, is not bonded to the outer casing, and the user can mechanically extend it as its point is worn away from use. The vast majority of mechanical pencils have erasers.
Erasers may be free-standing blocks (block and wedge eraser), or conical caps that can slip onto the end of a pencil (cap eraser). A barrel or click eraser is a device shaped like a pencil, but instead of being filled with pencil lead, its barrel contains a retractable cylinder of eraser material (most commonly soft vinyl). Many, but not all ...
A pencil (/ ˈ p ɛ n s ə l / ⓘ) is a writing or drawing implement with a solid pigment core in a protective casing that reduces the risk of core breakage and keeps it from marking the user's hand. Pencils create marks by physical abrasion, leaving a trail of solid core material that adheres to a sheet of paper or other surface.
LJ Rader launched ArtButMakeItSports in December 2019 after he began posting pictures of works of art with sports-inspired captions on his personal Instagram account. [1] A sports professional raised in Westchester County, New York, who has worked as a writer, reporter, and analyst, Rader's only formal art education was an art history course he took at Vanderbilt University, but he routinely ...
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The first products for sale were released in 1951, followed by pencils in 1960. [ 2 ] In 1963 Pentel launched the "Sign Pen", a fibre-type pen that was used by then President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson , who bought a dozen of them to sign photographs, apart from being adopted as the official writing instrument of NASA and going into ...
Typewriter Eraser, Scale X is a sculpture of a large-scale typewriter eraser by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. [1] Constructed in 1999, this model is located at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden. [2] [3] Other models are also located at Seattle Center near the Museum of Pop Culture, [4] and CityCenter, Paradise.
Hindustan Pencils Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian manufacturer of pencils, writing materials and other stationery items, established in 1958 [1] in Bombay (present-day Mumbai). The company makes writing implements under the brands Nataraj and Apsara , and claims to be the largest pencil manufacturer in India .