Great Inventions: The Jumbo Pencil
>> 18 March 2008
Number 10 on our top ten list of great inventions is the Jumbo Novelty Pencil:
This item narrowly overcame the Segway Personal Transporter for the #10 spot on the list.
Our panel of experts selected the Jumbo Novelty Pencil for the list due to it's "usefulness and hilarity."
The first Jumbo Novelty Pencil was made for the 1878 World Fair in Paris. This, of course, was the era during which the south American nations of Peru, Bolivia, and Chile were locked in deadly struggle in the War of the Pacific . These first Jumbo Pencils bore the anti-war slogan : "No Blood for Guano". Since its inception, the Jumbo Pencil has gradually evolved from a polarizing political symbol into a souvenir shop trinket that makes an inexpensive and thoughtful gift.
2 comments:
The jumbo pencils freak me out!! How exactly are you supposed to use those...do teachers actually let students write with those?!~
Is that true...about the war slogan?
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