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In 1902, Binney & Smith developed and introduced the Staonal marking crayon.

Then Edwin Binney, working with his wife, Alice Stead Binney, developed his own famous product line of wax crayons beginning on 10 June 1903, which it sold under the brand name " Crayola.

" The Crayola name was coined by Alice Binney, wife of company founder Edwin and a former schoolteacher.

It comes from " craie ", French for " chalk ," and " ola " for " oleaginous ", or " oily.

" Crayola introduced its crayons not with one box, but with a full product line.

By 1905, the line had expanded to offering 18 different-sized crayon boxes with five different-sized crayons, only two of which survive today – the " standard size " ( a standard sized Crayola crayon is 3 " × 5 / 16 ") and the " large size " ( large sized crayola crayons are 4 " × 7 / 16 ").

The product line offered crayon boxes contained containing 6, 7, 8, 12, 14, 16, 18, 24, 28, or 30 different color crayons.

Some of these boxes were targeted for artists and contained crayons with no wrappers, while others had a color number printed on the wrapper that corresponded to a number on a list of color names printed inside the box lid, but some boxes contained crayons with their color names printed on their wrappers.