Who really made the pencil sharpener?
The "Love Sharpener", was designed by John Lee Love of Fall
River, MA. Love's invention was the very simple, portable pencil
sharpener that many artists use, the pencil is put into the opening
of the sharpener and rotated by hand, and the shavings stay inside
the sharpener. Love's sharpener was patented on November 23, 1897
(U.S. Patent # 594,114). Four years earlier