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  2. Blackboard - Wikipedia

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    The use of blackboards changed methods of education and testing, as found in the Conic Sections Rebellion of 1830 in Yale. [18] Manufacturing of slate blackboards began by the 1840s. [4] Green porcelain enamel surface, was first used in 1930, and as this type of boards became popular, the word "chalkboard" appeared. [4]

  3. Stock market data systems - Wikipedia

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    The New York Stock Exchange is known as the "Big Board", perhaps because of these large chalk boards. Until recently, in some countries such chalkboards continued in use. Morse code was used in Chicago until 1967 for traders to send data to clerks called "board markers". [4]

  4. Bulletin board - Wikipedia

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    Well-used bulletin board on the Infinite Corridor at MIT, November 2004 Fanciful drawing of a general store by Marguerite Martyn in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of October 21, 1906. A man at right reads a notice of a revival service on a bulletin board. Cork, a common bulletin board material Bulletin boards can also be made of felt.

  5. Do Not Erase: Mathematicians and Their Chalkboards

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    [1] [5] Most of the photographs show the chalkboard in a moment drawn from the mathematician's work on it, [1] depicting how mathematicians think, work, and communicate with each other. [5] Some other photographs show chalk drawings that were deliberately created to be photographed for this book. The mathematicians themselves are not depicted. [1]

  6. US attacks Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen with B-2 bombers

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    A chalkboard in one of the classrooms had been used by the militants and had inscriptions in Arabic praising the Hamas-led assault on Israel last October that ignited the war, the military said.

  7. Chalkboard eraser - Wikipedia

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    A chalkboard eraser (sometimes known as a duster in India and elsewhere [1] [2]) is a special type of eraser specifically used to erase chalk markings on slating paint (used on chalkboards and slates). It is most commonly made of felt strips attached to a handle. Chalkboard erasers are typically broad and rectangular, intended to clear large ...

  8. Oklahoma high school uncovers pristine vintage chalkboards

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    Last week while contractors at Emerson High School in Oklahoma City were doing work in the classrooms, they uncovered several pristine chalkboards underneath another set of chalkboards from nearly ...

  9. Whiteboard - Wikipedia

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    A combination between a whiteboard and a cork bulletin board Original early 1960s ad for "Plasti-slate", the first whiteboard/dry erase board invented by Martin Heit. It has been widely reported that Korean War veteran and photographer Martin Heit and Albert Stallion, an employee at Alliance, a leading flat rolled steel sheet supplier should be credited with the invention of the whiteboard in ...