Not so fast, said a few of Crayola's veteran fans. When the old colors were re-released later that year in a special holiday commemorative collection, the groups were mollified. The new name, "chestnut," selected by Crayola customers, seems rather dull when you compare it with the names that came in as close seconds — "baseball-mitt brown" and "the crayon formerly known as indian red.
And in , "flesh" was renamed "peach. Back at the National Museum of American History, a large storage-room drawer reveals the museum's extensive crayon collection, ranging from the very old to some of the more recent, even including fruit-scented versions. There's a box, dated , with a picture of Peter Paul Rubens. Here's the schoolroom version: "Good in any climate, certified non-toxic.
Here is a beautiful round wooden container that looks like a toothpick holder, full of crayons. And here is a beautifully crafted wooden box, its dovetail construction giving it the look of a treasure chest.
The curator says that it is a treasure. It's filled with the factory standards — the master crayons, if you will. The olfactory system engages. The hypothalamus clicks on. Look out! Here they come — childhood memories! That familiar smell — a Yale University study on scent recognition once ranked crayons as number 18 of the 20 most recognizable scents to American adults.
The plant is running full tilt to produce for the back-to-school season. Three billion crayons are made here each year. Wooden pallets, each piled with cases of crayons waiting to be packaged, line the walls. Outside the factory is a row of two-story storage tanks holding liquid paraffin, which will be pumped into vats and mixed with colored powdery pigment.
Crayon molder Michael Hunt, from Bangor, Pennsylvania, is showing me how it's been done since the very early days. Besides the paraffin and the pigment, Hunt tells me, the crayon also contains talc.
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Scan A laser etches a date code on the cardboard, and a metal detector makes sure nothing but crayon is inside. Then, robotic packing machines bundle the boxes onto pallets, or into the cardboard display cases that await lucky kids in the school supplies aisle. View Iframe URL. Later, powdered pigments of various hues replaced the charcoal. It was subsequently discovered that substituting wax for the oil in the mixture made the resulting sticks sturdier and easier to handle.
In , Joseph W. This company was responsible for products in the black and red color range, such as lampblack, charcoal and paint containing red iron oxide which was often used to coat the barns dotting America's rural landscape. Peekskill Chemical was also instrumental in creating an improved and black colored automobile tire by adding carbon black that was found to increase the tire tread life by four or five times.
Around , Joseph's son, Edwin Binney, and nephew, C. The cousins expanded the company's product line to include shoe polish and printing ink. In , the company purchased a stone mill in Easton, PA, and began producing slate pencils for schools. This started Binney and Smith's research into non-toxic and colorful drawing mediums for kids. They had already invented a new wax crayon used to mark crates and barrels, however, it was loaded with carbon black and too toxic for children.
They were confident that the pigment and wax mixing techniques they had developed could be adapted for a variety of safe colors. In , a new brand of crayons with superior working qualities was introduced - Crayola Crayons.
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