GETTING MY SHORT MECHANICAL PENCIL TO WORK

As a method for drawing, the closest predecessor to your pencil was silverpoint or leadpoint until in 1565 (some resources say as early as 1500), a large deposit of graphite was discovered on the method of gray Knotts through the hamlet of Seathwaite in Borrowdale parish, Cumbria, England.[4][five][6][7] This particular deposit of graphite was ve