When is National Pencil Day?
Thursday March 30thThe writing utensil has achieved more than just teach millions of letters and draw straight lines each year, according to National Pencil Day on March 30th. In addition, it has helped win wars and created amazing artwork. Art has also played a key role in the development of modern art.
In 1858, Hymen Lipman became the first patent for attaching an eraser to the end of a pencil. Pencils and erasers were used separately before that time. Lipman and Lipman combined the two making the two devices much more convenient to use. The intuitive businessman also made envelopes for his stationery shop and was the first to apply adhesive to envelope flaps.
World war ii pencils
During World War II, Cumberland Pencil Company out of Kenswick, England, manufactured pencils that were supposed to function. On either end, the pencils were hollow with graphite. Between the graphite and the freedom, the designers had stowed maps to assist captured military personnel who had been captured in the enslavement process. Charles Fraser Smith designed them in 1942, and at night, when the factory closed, workers would assemble them under secrecy.. The miniature maps provided detailed escape routes from war camps' prisoner to war camps as well as a miniature compass. These small arms were issued to members of the Royal Airforce and sent to POW camps throughout the war.
