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- Pencil Sharpener, circa 1900 - Inventors in the late-19th and early-20th centuries devised ways to sharpen pencils with a turn of a crank. Some sharpeners used turning blades; others used a spinning abrasive, like sandpaper or a steel file. The F. S. Webster Company manufactured this device that used still another way to create a pencil point -- a rotating milling disk.
- circa 1900
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Pencil Sharpener, circa 1900
Inventors in the late-19th and early-20th centuries devised ways to sharpen pencils with a turn of a crank. Some sharpeners used turning blades; others used a spinning abrasive, like sandpaper or a steel file. The F. S. Webster Company manufactured this device that used still another way to create a pencil point -- a rotating milling disk.