Down the ages, people have made mistakes writing. During the Roman Empire, writers scratched their own wax tablets.
But after Americas discovery, Christopher Columbus brought back to Europe rubber balls made by Indians. At that time, rubber was produced from gum trees; Indians used that to make balls for games, shoes, hats, tools and many other things.
At the beginning, Columbus didn't understand the versatility of the new material, he only used the rubber balls to play with, just like the Indians did. But, the difference in temperature in Europe made it difficult. The rubber balls got hard in Winter and sticky in Summer. Columbus's idea was quickly given up.
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Shortly after in 1770, Joseph Priestley noticed that rubber erased pencils writing. It was a huge success.
And finally in 1858 the last step was to put the eraser on the end of pencils, made by Imeneo Lipman
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