Mistakes are a part of life, and Rubber Eraser Day celebrates the invention of erasers. Everyone makes mistakes. So Rubber Eraser Day is all about being grateful for those little erasers on the ends of our pencils. They are great at cleaning up the mistakes we make on our papers. Imagine what our papers would look like if we did not have those little rubber erasers.
So who invented the eraser and when? In 1770, Joseph Priestley learned that using pieces of rubber could take away pencil marks. Then Hyman Lipman from Philadelphia made a pencil with an eraser at the end in 1858.
Today's Quote: To err is human, an eraser is divine!
