The best writing tool on Earth was found by accident, after a storm knocked over a tree in 16th-century England. From a graphite deposit so valuable it was guarded by armed soldiers, to a wartime blockade that gave us the H and B hardness scale, Henry David Thoreau’s family pencil factory, and a diamond-themed marketing stunt that made pencils yellow — this is the full story behind the object in your junk drawer.
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