More than 5 billion crayons are produced each year / myLot

United States

January 15, 2007 12:05pm CST

More than 100 billion crayons have been produced so far. The first crayons consisted of a mixture of charcoal and oil. In the early 1900s, Edwin Binney and Harold Smith developed a nontoxic wax crayon. Binney's wife, Alice, attached the French word for chalk, craie, with "ola," from oily, to form the Crayola name. The first Crayola crayons came in a box of 8. By 1957, 40 new colours were introduced. Today there are more than 120 crayon colours. Over 5 billion crayons are produced each year.

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Casey Heinzism

@dnatureofdtrain (5273)

• Janesville, Wisconsin

11 May 07

Neat! Thanks for Sharing. Who doesn't love to color and draw with Crayola crayons! I do! Here is the Crayola website http://www.crayola.com/ I also remember Indian Red Crayon they changed it's name after people had mistaken the Indian Red refering to the Red soils of India as refering to skin color... I remember the huge debate on that but I do not remember the new name for that crayon. Take care, - DNatureofDTrain

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