The legacy of the pencil is a celebration of cultural diffusion and environmental resources.
From the day cavemen decided to dip their fingers into gels of grounded berries to this day where people rehash the vestigial predilections back to those digits for the new era of touch screen technology.
The development of the pencil had already started its course from the early times.
Europeans already had started using sharp points and lead to compose their works of literature, but it was by the eighteenth century when these sharp points started getting encased in wooden sheaths.
It was the perfect combination of Borrowdale graphite and European Juniper, but unfortunately the Crown shut the productions down to maintain the mineral value. Other ingredients, including sulfur and glue, were added into the mix to husband the precious quality of the Borrowdale graphite.
In 1793, when the beef between England and France arose, the French responded to this shortage.
Nicolas-Jacques Conté programmed a formula which became how we make pencils today. The scientist produced a paste of typical graphite and potter's clay and water and dried this result into a long mold. The mold was then encased in a ceramic box and cooked in an oven.
These beautiful graphite ammunitions were then placed in wooden cases and provided a very serviceable pencil that could be an undifferentiated quality and produced in global quantities, celebrating a cultural devotion to experimental engineering and an revitalized appreciation for science around the Atlantic World during the European revolutions.
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