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Creator of dustless chalk Co-founder of Crayola Edwin Binney (November 24, 1866 – December 17, 1934) was an American entrepreneur and inventor, who created the first dustless white chalk , and along with his cousin C. Harold Smith (born London, 1860 - died, 1931), was the founder of handicrafts company Binney & Smith , which marketed his ...
The graphite in mechanical pencils is typically much narrower than in wooden pencils, frequently in sub-millimeter diameters. This makes them particularly useful for fine diagrams or small handwriting, although different sizes of refill leads cannot be interchanged in the same pencil unless it has been specially designed for that purpose.
Text (produced by an ISO stencil template for use with the technical pens) of 5 mm in height has a stroke or line thickness of 0.5 mm, and so requires a brown-nibbed 0.5 mm pen. If this text were used in an ISO-sized document (e.g. A0), and the document were reproduced at half its original height (A2), the text would be rendered 2.5 mm high ...
Boxes of Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk, produced by Hagoromo Bungu. Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk (Japanese: 羽衣フルタッチチョーク, Korean: 하고로모 풀터치 분필) is a South Korean-owned brand of chalk for blackboards, originally produced by Japanese company Hagoromo Bungu (羽衣文具). Production of the chalk began in 1932.
Templates contain pre-dimensioned holes in the right scale to accurately draw a symbol or sign. Letter templates are used for drawing text, including digits and letter characters. Diagrams are usually of a standard letter shape and size to conform to standards of encodings (e.g. DIN or ANSI).
CAD: computer-aided design, computer-aided drafting; cadmium [plating]: CAGE: Commercial and Government Entity [code]: A CAGE code is a unique identifier to label an entity (that is, a specific government agency or corporation at a specific site) that is a CDA, ODA, or MFR of the part defined by the drawing.
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.
Silver mechanical pencil Catalogue from 1898 Sampson Mordan (c. 1790 – 9 April 1843) was a British silversmith and a co-inventor of the first patented mechanical pencil . During his youth, he was an apprentice of the inventor and locksmith Joseph Bramah , who patented the first elastic ink reservoir for a fountain pen .