The History of Crayola Crayons

For nearly a hundred years children have used draws to express themselves and their creativity. This is largely due to the brilliant inventors of bingle American company Binney & smith Inc. Edwin Binney and Harold Smith founded Binney & Smith in New York City in the 1800s around 1885, Josephs son, Edwin Binney, and nephew, C Harold Smith organize the partnership of Binney & Smith. The cousins extended Their companys product line by including shoe polish and printing ink. The company purchased a stone mill in Eastern PA in 1900, to produce slate pencils for schools.This began the cousins to beginresearch into non-toxic and colorful drawing materials for children to use. Theyve already accomplished inventing a new wax crayon used to mark milk crates as well as barrels, however the materials were covered with carbon black which was too toxic for children to use.Despite this concern the cousins were confident the blusher and wax mix they developed could be converted for a variety of safe colors. And, in 1903, a new brand of superior crayons tucked wrong a yellow and green box of eight was introduced to the public- Crayola Crayons. (In French Crayola oleaginous means oily and crayons craie meanschalk). Generations later, thanks to its innovation in bring into being and excellent marketing by extending on their success by creating more colors inside bigger yellow and green boxes and changing with the times In 1962, the color flesh, changed to peach, since everyones skin color wasnt the same as well as a variety of other colors. Because of this adjusting to the changing times Binney & Smith are still king at the market they created decades ago.-Works Cited-Author Mary BellisInventors, Crayola Crayon History. WWW. inventors. about. com/library/inventors/blcrayon. html