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Almanac: The pencil and eraser 02:05. And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: March 30th, 1858, 156 years ago today . . . the day a Philadelphia inventor made his mark.

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The pencil eraser was patented in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by Hymen Lipman, a Jewish immigrant from Kingston, Jamiaca, on this day in history, March 30, 1858.

The little erasers on pencil ends are known as "plugs." Yep. And those small bands of metal that contain the plugs are called "ferrules." 9. Many of today's most high-tech erasers are made of vinyl.