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Pencils

By: Ceci

What are they made out of?

Pencils are made out of a road of graphite inclosed in wood panted yellow. Then the put on the eraser secured with a peace of aluminum.

The sites I used

chpptp://school.eb.com/levels/middle/articale/2763442.

Britannica school

School encyclopedia

Britannica,Inc.,Web.22Feb.2016

When was the mechanical pencil invented?

The mechanical pencil was invented in 1921 by a man who did not like to get up and sharpen his pencil every time it was dull so he created the mechanical pencil

Dose a pencil contain lead?

Why was the pencil created

What word dose pencil come from

No. A pencil used to contain lead but that was about 500 years ago. They found out how bad it was if a kid put the lead in his or her mouth so they switched it to graphite.

The pencil as created because the greeks wanted a more precise way of drawing and writing and a way to correct mistakes.

The word pencil comes from a Latin word penicillium witch means little tail, witch is a small bush used by the Romans.

Who helped prefect the pencil?

How many pencils are sold a year?

Who invented the pencil?

The wooden casing was perfected by William Monroe he was a cabinet maker in the united states. The first person to make a sturdy and well made pencil was Nicolas-Jacques.

In the united states alone more than two and a half billion pencil cases a year and that's a lot of pencils.

The ancient Greeks where the first people in the history books who used pencils.

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