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The Roman scribes were the first ones to use a thin metal rod to write.
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A graphite deposit was discovered in Borrowdale, England. Graphite was first wrapped in strings; later on it was inserted in wooden sticks giving birth to wooden pencils.
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The earliest mechanical pencil is believed to be from the year of 1636.
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Pencils were first mass produced in Nuremberg, Germany.
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The first man to make wooden pencils in America was William Monroe in Concord, Massachusetts.
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The fist mechanical pencil patent was applied until the year 1822 by John Hawkins and Sampson Mordan.
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In the late 19th century German pencil manufacturing factories were established in New York and New Jersey.
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Pencils were originally unpainted but by the 1890s they started to be factory painted and imprinted with the factory name; that is where the original yellow pencil started.
