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The beginning of the whiteboard

Actually in the beginning of the 1960s in the Uk, Edmond Hellerman from Edmond Hellerman ltd who specialized in technical drawing equipment experimented with the new plastics and came up with a thin plastic not too shinny version he thought would be better than the standard boards in schools. He cut the plastic to the size of existing blackboards. He added adhesive tape and rolled them into tubes adding the new erasable markers. He then sold these to schools. He had no idea that anything like this was going on anywhere else in the world. Unlike other items he had invented. He didn’t patten his invention. This was in the United Kingdom on the early 60’s. 62.4.41.31 (talk) 04:28, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Correction Esmond Hellerman. I think these were the first adhesive white boards cut to the size of the existing blackboar Ehoter (talk) 05:54, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

the beginning of the whiteboard

According to the following lines found in

CRAGGS, D. Masterpieces of Magic. Academy of Recorded Crafts, Arts and Sciences Limited, Croydon, 1949, p. 60,

the whiteboard seems to have been invented much earlier:

"The reason we [magicians] have clung to it [the slate] is due solely, I think, to our inability to find anything to take its place. But there is now coming into general use an article - and it is my opinion it will be used by the public to a greater extent than the slate ever was - to which we should give our attention. I refer to the writing tablet with a glossy white or cream surface on which one can write with a - usually blue - crayon type pencil, and can rub the writinig out with a dry duster."

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"The tablets can be purchased - or could before the war - at most stationers, in various sizes; some quite plain, others with such words at the top, as, "Telephone Messages, "Notes", etc."

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"Those I have used are made by Messrs. Charles Letts & Company,* makers of the famous diaries, and are called the "WYPOFF" Tablet."

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• Letts of London

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letts_of_London Christian Rudolf Scherer (talk) 11:07, 1 September 2024 (UTC)