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A Brief History of the Pencil, as told by a Pencil Aficionado http://99u.com/articles/5... http://i2.wp.com/adobe99u... https://adobe99u.files.wo...
A Brief History of the Pencil, as told by a Pencil Aficionado http://99u.com/articles/5... http://i2.wp.com/adobe99u... https://adobe99u.files.wo...
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“Legend has it that during the French Revolution, Napoleon asked Nicholas Conte, who was an engineer who worked mostly with hot air balloons, to make him a better, stronger pencil. All the good pencils were coming from Germany or Britain at the time, and he couldn’t import them because of the war.” Napoleon only had access to crappy graphite, but Conte figured out that even crappy graphite, when powdered, mixed with powdered clay, and fired in a kiln, makes not only a serviceable and inexpensive pencil. It makes a better pencil. Conte also created the mostly-modern method of enclosing the stick of graphite in two half-cylinders of wood, rather than filing out a hole through the middle of a solid stick. And he did this all, according to legend, in eight days.
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