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To make sharpening pencils easier. He invented the sharpener to minimize the use of knives for sharpening pencils
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How do you say a pencil sharpener in French?
A pencil sharpener is un taille-crayon in French.
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
Can a pencil sharpener be 50 kilogram?
If it were, it would be rather difficult to lift, and probably too big to fit a pencil through. A pencil sharpener is more likely to weigh 50 grams, if it is one of a mechanical variety.
How do you put a point on a pencil?
You sharpen the pencil to put a point on it. Before sharpeners and when pencil wood was much thicker, men cut (whittled) the wood with a knife to make the point.
Why did Nicolas Jacques Conte invent the pencil?
because it is another form of art
