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Last updated: 18th June 2010
Member count: 31, from 9 countries
Pending members: 0
Newest members: Brandy
Growth rate: 0.07 fans/day

history of the crayon

The world's largest manufacturer and inventor of wax crayons is Crayola LLC (formerly Binney & Smith Inc.), the manufacturer of Crayola crayons, which are made of paraffin wax, a petroleum product. The brand's first box of eight Crayola crayons made its debut in 1903, and was the first non-toxic crayon, aimed at children. The crayons were sold for a nickel and the colors were: black, brown, blue, red, purple, orange, yellow, and green. The word Crayola was created by Alice Stead Binney, wife of Edwin Binney, who took the French words for chalk, craie, and oily, oleagineux, and combined them. The Crayola Factory is located in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Other brand name crayon manufacturers include Rose Art Industries and Dixon Ticonderoga. There are also numerous suppliers who create generic brand or store brand crayons. These are typically found in supermarkets. As part of a crayon convention in Butenseken Sweden, the largest crayon was formed from five million litres of wax.