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Oct 2, 1564
the tree pencil
On a stormy night in bowwordale England a tree was sruck by lightning. It fell into a shapards feild. They thought the black stuff waa coal but did not burn. It made drak marks but broke very easily they decided to put a string around it to make it stronger -
making a better pencil
In this year the pencil was starting to be manufactored in nuremburg Germany. Instead of string around the pencil They found out that wood made it srtonger -
making of "lead"
A feach chemicist named Nicholus Jacques conte Found out that graphite broke to easy. To fix it he mixed clay with the graphite to make a softer substance called lead. He made them into sticks to make it easyer for manufacters -
The american pencil
At this time the first pencil was made in america by william monroe. His pencil was better because it was dried graphate not hardened like the ones in Germany -
the invention for mistakes
By now the germany factories had moved to new york city and were doing well. A brand new invition by eberhand faber was the eraser which allowed people with pencils to take erase all the mistake they might have made with the lead. -
The all around best pencil
This was the date where a flat pencil that everone was used to was changed for ever. Joseph Dixion make the first ever rounded pencil. The core was now rounded wich allowed people to fit there hands around it easyer -
The chinese pencil
At this time graphite was majority from china and the manufacorers wanted people to know that the graphie was the highest quality. For this reason pencil started to be painted yellow because this is a sighn of royaty and respect in the chinnese culture
