History of Pencil
PensilPenggunaan history of lead and graphite which gives the effect of gray streaks started in ancient Greece.
In 1564 pure graphite content was found in abundance in northern England. Although it looks like coal, graphite can not be burned, and it left a shiny black and easily removed. In those days are still confused with graphite lead and Plumbago. That's why the term lead pencil (pencil lead) is still used today.
Because oily, formerly graphite wrapped in sheep skin or small pieces of tin-sticks wrapped with rope.
It is not known with certainty who was at first put into graphite in a pencil-shaped container wood so that we know today. However, in the 1560s, a pencil with a primitive form that already exists in continental Europe.
Graphite was then exported to the artists, and in the 17th century can be said graphite has been used everywhere.
Makers are experimenting with a graphite pencil to create a better stationery.
Because graphite into something so precious and became the target of thieves, in the year 1752 the British Parliament passed legislation which established that graphite could be imprisoned burglars.
In 1789 the name graphite comes from the Greek graphein officially given, thus eliminating the confusion between the graphite with black lead.
In the making of the modern pencil, pure graphite used in a manner mixed with clay.
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