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- Pencil Sharpener, circa 1908 - Inventors in the late-19th and early-20th centuries devised ways to sharpen pencils with a turn of a crank. Some sharpeners used rotating milling disk; others used a spinning abrasive, like sandpaper or a steel file. The Automatic Pencil Sharpening Company manufactured this device that used still another way to create a pencil point -- turning blades.
- circa 1908
- Collections - Artifact
Pencil Sharpener, circa 1908
Inventors in the late-19th and early-20th centuries devised ways to sharpen pencils with a turn of a crank. Some sharpeners used rotating milling disk; others used a spinning abrasive, like sandpaper or a steel file. The Automatic Pencil Sharpening Company manufactured this device that used still another way to create a pencil point -- turning blades.
- Pencil Sharpener, circa 1950 -
- circa 1950
- Collections - Artifact
Pencil Sharpener, circa 1950
- U.S. Automatic Pencil Sharpener, circa 1906 -
- circa 1906
- Collections - Artifact
U.S. Automatic Pencil Sharpener, circa 1906