Senior K Goss’ Sessions 2008

Pencil Sharpeners exist as electrical and hand powered forms. Before sharpeners were invented they sharpened pencils with a knife. Pencil sharpeners make this job easier and make the pencil neater. Some pencils such as the carpenters pencil still have to be sharpened with a knife because of the flat shape they have, but a sharpener has been invented for it. The first manual pencil sharpener were invented by Therry des Estwaux in 1828. John Lee Love invented the ‘portable’ sharpener that was originally made for artists. About.com claims that Raymond Loewy designed the first electric sharpener in the late 1940’s. Now they come in a wide range of shapes, colours and sizes. Most sharpeners come with a case around them, then just remove the case to empty and replace.  

I got my Information from Wikipedia.

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