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  2. Slavoljub Eduard Penkala - Wikipedia

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    On 24 January 1906 he registered the patent for an automatic pencil. Collaborating with an entrepreneur by the name of Edmund Moster, he started the Penkala-Moster Company and built a pen-and-pencil factory that was one of the biggest in the world at the time. As the business grew, a second factory was set up in Berlin.

  3. The Pencil of Nature - Wikipedia

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    Each plate is accompanied by a short text which describes the scene and the photographic processes involved in obtaining it. Talbot emphasized the practical implications of his images (for instance, "The whole cabinet of a Virtuoso and collector of old China might be depicted on paper in little more time than it would take him to make a written inventory describing it in the usual way."), but ...

  4. List of defunct American magazines - Wikipedia

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    Dell Pencil Puzzles & Word Games, Dell Magazines ( –2000) Desert Magazine (1937–1985) Desert Rat Scrap Book (1945–1967) Desktop Publishing Magazine (1985–1986) Details (1982–2015) Detective Book Magazine (1930–1931; 1937–1952) Develop (1990–1997) The Dial (1840–1929) DigitalFOTO, Imagine Media Inc. (2000–2001)

  5. Penmanship - Wikipedia

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    George A. Gaskell (1845–1886), a student of Spencer, authored two popular books on penmanship, Gaskell's Complete Compendium of Elegant Writing and The Penman's Hand-Book (1883). Louis Henry Hausam published the "New Education in Penmanship" in 1908, called "the greatest work of the kind ever published." [26]

  6. Malala's Magic Pencil - Wikipedia

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    Malala's Magic Pencil is a 2017 picture book authored by Malala Yousafzai and illustrated by Kerascoët. The book was published by Little, Brown and Company in the U.S., and Puffin Books in the U.K., [ 2 ] with Farrin Jacobs as editor. [ 3 ]

  7. Picture book - Wikipedia

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    Comparing digital and traditional printed books has become a popular topic. The University of California has conducted a study and revealed the differences in book format and how they impact children's learning. [25] Children who participated in this study were randomly assigned to read the same book in different formats: eBook or Print book.

  8. Big Chief tablet - Wikipedia

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    This book of short stories was the basis for A Christmas Story. In the 1994 film Forrest Gump , Forrest can be seen getting on the bus holding a "Big Chief Tablet". It also appears in the famous "run Forrest, run" scene.

  9. Action Transfers - Wikipedia

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    Action Transfers, also known as rub-on transfers, were an art-based children's pastime that was extremely popular throughout the world from the 1960s to the 1980s.They consisted of a printed cardboard background image and a transparent sheet of coloured dry transfer figures of people, animals, vehicles, weapons, explosions and so on.