{"id":654,"date":"2026-11-23T00:20:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-23T05:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=654"},"modified":"2025-12-20T22:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:04:04","slug":"john-lee-love-patented-the-pencil-sharpener-in-1897","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"Pencil Sharpener Was Patented by John Lee Love in 1897"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25966\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25966\" class=\"wp-image-25966 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Pencil-Sharpener-204x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pencil Sharpener Patent<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Pencil sharpener<\/strong>\u00a0was patented by John Lee Love in 1897. The African American inventor also patented an improved plasterer\u2019s hawk that is still used today. Children can view his pencil sharpener patent at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US594114?dq=Patent+number+594114&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=Z6SMUJjcKofp0QGcpIF4&amp;ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pencil Sharpener Patent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pencil sharpener\u00a0was patented by John Lee Love in 1897. The African American inventor also patented an improved plasterer\u2019s hawk that is still used today. Children can view his pencil sharpener patent at: Pencil Sharpener Patent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5546,468,6038,469,470],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5546","tag-john-lee-love","tag-november-23","tag-pencil-sharpener","tag-plasterers-hawk","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29882,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/29882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}