1 wonder how many of you know how ordinary lead pencils are made? The funny lliing is that Ihe best pencils are not made of lead at all. When pencils were llrsl used they were made of lead, Iml, as you will Itiul if you try to wrile with a piece of lead, they only made a very faint mark on paper. Then graphite or plumbago was discovered. This was sawed into thin slicks and encased in wood in the usual way. Graphite was mined at a place called Borrowdale. in Cumberland, but about 100 years after if was discovered if was all Used Up, and in IBNO mil mi fael urers bad In look about thorn for another method of making pencils.
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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18855, 27 January 1933, Page 9
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