New York Times:
Since 1889, the General Pencil Company has been converting huge quantities of raw materials (wax, paint, cedar planks, graphite) into products you can find, neatly boxed and labeled, in art and office-supply stores across the nation: watercolor pencils, editing pencils, sticks of charcoal, pastel chalks. Even as other factories have chased higher profit margins overseas, General Pencil has stayed put, cranking out thousands upon thousands of writing instruments in the middle of Jersey City.
Pencils are one of those things few of us give any thought to – or, for that matter, use much any more – but this glorious photo essay will definitely get you thinking about the “lowly” pencil.
The pencil is the best of all writing instruments.
Best feature: No one steals them off your desk.
Pencil making has long been on the cutting edge of technology. Thoureau was an engineer at his family’s pencil factory. For more about the history of pencils I recommend https://smile.amazon.com/Pencil-History-Design-Circumstance/dp/0679734155/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1516067023&sr=8-2&keywords=the+pencil+book
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