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A pencil is a writing implement or art medium constructed of a narrow they are also large and thin.
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Prior to 1565 a large deposit of graphite was discovered on the approach to Grey Knotts from the hamlet of Seathwaite in Borrowdale England.
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Around 1560 an Italian couple named Simonio and Lyndiana Bernacotti made the close-ups for the modern, wood-boxed woodworking pencil.
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Conrad von Gesner invented it.