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Amusingly Elaborate Early Designs for Pencil Sharpeners
"Obviously we need cast-iron gears"
Is there anything more fun than seeing early, experimental designs for now-commonplace objects? As in, the wild things people tried before the dominant form factor emerged.
Rescue & Restore shows us five proto-pencil-sharpeners that they restored, and demonstrates how they operate. Some you can guess how they work by looking at them, others are a surprise:
1886 Gem Sandpaper Pencil Sharpener By Gould & Cook
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1890s Perfect Pointer Pencil Sharpener
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1904 Little Shaver Pencil Sharpener
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As examples of early UX considerations, the ones designed with a shavings capture bin should get extra points:
1910 Peerless Pencil Whittler Sharpener
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1920s Avanti Pencil Sharpener
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How disappointed would those inventors be, to know that we've whittled it down to this:
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Those inventors surely knew their devices were frivolous though, right!? Back when everyone was used to working with their hands, any small knife got the job done just as quickly :)
You're right, of course, Adam. But back when everyone was using pencils daily for precision tasks (well, draughtsmen, at any rate), I can well see the appeal these magnificent instruments would have had.