Pencils, erasers, ballpoint pens - it was always fun to start a new term with a new brace of equipment in your pencil case. And have you ever thought about the history behind those school essentials?

Who Invented the Eraser? The history of erasers dates back to the 1770s, when bread was the primary tool used to erase pencil markings. People would roll up and moisten bread to remove graphite ...