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the only tool that loves your mistakes enough to make them vanish.
means A piece of rubber or similar material used to rub out pencil marks or, in its larger form, to wipe chalk or ink from a board.
from From the verb "erase," which comes through French from Latin "eradere" — "to scrape out" — built from "e-" (out) and "radere" (to scrape), the same root that gives us "abrade" and "razor." The "-er" ending simply names the thing that does the scraping. Fittingly, the word carries the image of literally scratching a mark away, long before soft rubber made the act gentle.
- latex roots
- Pre-rubber erasers were just balls of crustless bread
- naming rights
- Charles Goodyear vulcanized rubber, making erasers durable
- patent twist
- The pencil-eraser combo was patented in 1858
- the residue
- Those crumbs are erased graphite trapped in rubber
- pink past
- Original pink color came from pumice and dye
pink pearl eraser — trademarked rubber eraser made by faber-castell since 1902, world's best-selling pencil eraser
magic eraser — melamine foam cleaning product by mr. clean, launched 2003, removes marks from walls and surfaces