You’ve all used pencils and you know you love being able to erase them and the fact that they don’t bleed through the paper and stuff. But did you ever know where they came from. They originally were metal sticks used to scratch whatever the artist or scribe wanted however they weren’t erasable and they were made of lead so it was slightly poisons to use them. It was in the 1500s that graphite was discovered and used for pencils although the material had changed the long use of lead led, no pun intended, to us still calling the graphite core lead. The eraser was finally paired up with our friend the pencil in 1875 by an American by the name of Hymen Lipman. Although there was some uh suing involved his name stands in the patent office still today. So we went from scratching with lead to drawing with want to be lead and thus we have the pencil we all know and love today.
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