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  2. Pencil sharpener - Wikipedia

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    The oldest surviving electric pencil sharpener is the Boston Polar Club pencil sharpener, introduced around 1936. [19] Electric pencil sharpeners work on the same principle as manual ones, but one or more flat-bladed or cylindrical cutters are rotated by an electric motor. [16]

  3. X-Acto - Wikipedia

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    X-Acto sharpeners are electric, battery, or manual. X-Acto has three types of trimmers: razor, rotary, and guillotine. Through 2012, the company sold ceramic and convection space heaters and fans under the Boston brand name. [4]

  4. Walter K. Foster House - Wikipedia

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    Walter Kittredge Foster was an inventor and owner of a pencil sharpener factory. [2] [3] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, [1] and included in the Central Square Historic District in 1990.

  5. Nashoba Brook Pencil Factory Site - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 42°30′20″N 71°24′46″W. Kiosk. Nashoba Brook Pencil Factory Site. The Nashoba Brook Pencil Factory Site contains the ruins of a 19th-century dam-powered pencil factory. This factory was one of several in Acton and Concord, Massachusetts at the time that brought important developments to pencil manufacturing.

  6. Hymen Lipman - Wikipedia

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    Hymen Lipman. Hymen L. Lipman (c. 1817/1823 – November 4, 1893) is credited with registering the first patent for a pencil with an attached eraser on March 30, 1858 (U.S. patent 19,783). Hymen L. Lipman was born March 20, 1817, in either Kingston, Jamaica or in the Bahamas, to English parents.

  7. Helen Blanchard - Wikipedia

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    Portland, Maine. Died. January 12, 1922. (1922-01-12) (aged 81) Providence, Rhode Island. Helen Augusta Blanchard (25 October 1840 – January 12, 1922) was an American inventor who received 28 patents between 1873 and 1915. She was known for her numerous inventions dealing with sewing machines and sewing technology.

  8. Speedball (art products) - Wikipedia

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    Speedball is a US manufacturing company of stationery and art products, based in Statesville, North Carolina. The company was originally established as the "C. Howard Hunt Pen Company" in 1899, [ 4] to manufacture dip pens . Over the years, and throughout the acquisition of other companies, Hunt expanded its range of product to stationery ...

  9. Bostitch - Wikipedia

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    Bostitch. Stanley Bostitch, previously and more commonly known as simply Bostitch, is an American company that specializes in the design and manufacture of fastening tools—such as staplers, staple guns, nailers, riveters, and glue guns —and fasteners —such as nails, screws, and staples. Its product range covers home, office, like the ...

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