Before the pencil came along all people had to write with was a pen or quill. Artists didn’t like this because they couldn’t shade or make lighter lines. Writers didn’t like it because if they made a mistake they had to scrap the whole page and do it again without mistakes. The first graphite mine found was in England where all the graphite was solid. In other mines the graphite was powder and dust. For a long time England was the only place that could make pencils because nobody could make powder graphite into solid graphite. When the mine was first found people thought it was lead. That mistake is why we call it pencil lead. Eventually someone found out how to make solid graphite out of powder graphite.
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