The Portland Pudgy safety dinghy is a self-rescue boat, even without the optional inflatable exposure canopy and other survival gear. With the exposure canopy, sea anchor, and sail kit, the Portland Pudgy is an unsinkable, dynamic lifeboat.
The âlead pencil,â containing no lead, was invented in 1564, a turning point in pencil history. Although civilizations were centuries away from making mechanical pencil history, the pencil invented in the sixteenth century advanced the writing instrument. Before 1564, artists mainly used stylus-like pencils. The history of the pencil owes a dept to the discovery of a graphite mine in Cumbria, England.
Love spent most of his working life in Fall River, Massachusetts, but he died in North Carolina in 1931. Love is most known for his invention of the portable pencil sharpener, which is an item still in use today in most schools in America. Love also invented the Plasterer's Hawk. This tool is used by bricklayers to spread plaster and mortar in a flat way.