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Nevertheless, Tokuji Hayakawa persevered. Resistance to the pencil stopped abruptly when a large order was received from a trading firm in Yokohama. This was prompted by the pencil's popularity in Europe and the United States.
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Invents Hayakawa Mechanical Pencil and begins export to the...
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Dec 7, 2021 · Founder Tokuji Hayakawa invented a twist-type mechanical pencil structure by metalwork at the age of 21, and named it EVER READY SHARP PENCIL from its feature of always having a sharp edge. However, at that time in Japan, production of pencils just started, and people still wore traditional Japanese clothes.
In 1913, Hayakawa acquired the patent of an innovative water faucet, and in 1915, he developed the prototype of the Sharp automatic pencil still sold today. Later, he expanded his enterprise into electronics manufacturing of radios, tape-recorders and televisions.
For Hayakawa Tokuji, the numerous gaps and inconsistencies in English-language versions of his story were finally cleared up through the kind assistance of Hiromi Morita of the Sharp Corporation and the material so freely shared by veteran collector Masa Sunami.
Sharp founder Tokuji Hayakawa (front row, far right) during his apprenticeship, with co-workers. Sakata started a new business manufacturing pencils. However, owing to the immaturity of the technology, the business failed and the majority of the pencils turned out to be rejects.
Sharp founder Tokuji Hayakawa coined this phrase to embody the management concept at Sharp. In 1912, he invented the snap belt buckle and three years later brought the Ever-Sharp mechanical pencil to the market.
The Myth. In 1912, Tokuji Hayakawa, a Japanese businessman, invented an all metal propel type pencil named Ever-Sharp. The EverSharp Pencil Company began exporting pencils to the United States in 1914.
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