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  2. History of Crayola crayons - Wikipedia

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    The name Crayola was suggested by Alice Binney, wife of company founder Edwin Binney, combining craie, French for "chalk," a reference to the pastels that preceded and lent their name to the first drawing crayons, with the suffix -ola, meaning "oleaginous," a reference to the wax from which the crayons were made. [1]

  3. Timeline of Crayola - Wikipedia

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    Crayola introduces Heads n' Tails Crayons. The Crayola 150-count Telescoping Crayon Tower is released. 2007: On January 1, Binney & Smith is renamed to Crayola LLC, to improve Crayola branding as part of Hallmark. [5] Crayola introduces Silly Scents and True To Life Crayons. 2008: The Crayola 18 pack vibrant set of Twistable Colored Pencils is ...

  4. Crayola - Wikipedia

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    The Smithsonian National Museum of American History maintains a collection of Crayola crayons founded by an original 64-color box donated by Binney & Smith in 1998. The collection now includes more than 300 boxes of crayons. [26] The Crayola crayon was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame as a founding member at its inception.

  5. Edwin Binney - Wikipedia

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    Edwin Binney (November 24, 1866 – December 17, 1934) was an American entrepreneur and inventor, who created the first dustless white chalk, and along with his cousin C. Harold Smith (born London, 1860 - died, 1931), was the founder of handicrafts company Binney & Smith, which marketed his invention of the Crayola crayon.

  6. Dandelion (crayon color) - Wikipedia

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    While Crayola had retired colors before, [2] Dandelion was the first color to be removed from the box set in the 114 years since Crayola's establishment. [3] [4] Crayola wanted space to add a blue crayon made with the newly discovered YinMn pigment to their 24 pack, [2] [5] which was announced at and had an event in Times Square livestreamed on Facebook, on March 31, 2017.

  7. Colin Snedeker - Wikipedia

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    Colin M. Snedeker (January 5, 1936 – October 22, 2016) was a British-born American chemist best known as the inventor of the first washable crayons.Snedeker developed the washable crayon while working as a chemist for Binney & Smith, which was the parent company of Crayola crayons at the time, in response to complaints from parents and consumers.

  8. Crayon - Wikipedia

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    A colorful selection of crayons. A crayon (or wax pastel) is a stick of pigmented wax used for writing or drawing. Wax crayons differ from pastels, in which the pigment is mixed with a dry binder such as gum arabic, and from oil pastels, where the binder is a mixture of wax and oil. Crayons are available in a range of prices, and are easy to ...

  9. Category:Crayola - Wikipedia

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    Crayola is a company, formerly named Binney & Smith Inc., as well as a brand of art products manufactured by that company. Pages in category "Crayola" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.