Pau Ingles

The pencil as we know it was 150 years old on Sunday 30th March. We can find pencils everywhere: at school, at home, at the office, even on the golf course. Because they are so common we tend to takethem for granted.
Pencils are the most useful yet least appreciated writing instruments of all time: the world´s only portable, lightweight invention that can draw a line 35 miles long, write anaverage of 45.000 words, absorb 17 sharpenings and delete its own errors.
Modern pencils are the descendants of ancient writing intruments. In ancient Rome, scribes wrote on papyrus (an early from ofpaper) with a thin metal rod called a stylus, whith left a light but readable mark. Other early styluses were made of lead. Today we still call the core of a pencil the “lead” even though it is madefrom non-toxic graphite.
Graphite came into widespread use following the discovery of a large graphite deposit in Borrowdale, England in 1564. Graphite left a darker mark than lead, but was so soft andbreakable that it required a holder. At first, sticks of graphite were wrapped in string. Later, the graphite was inserted into wooden sticks and the wood en sticks and the wood-cased pencil was born.The first mass-produced pencils were made in Nüremberg, Germany in 1622. There an active pencil industry developed with famous companies like Fabe-Castell established in 1761, Lyra, Staedther andothers growing throughout the 19 th century industrial revolution.

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- Pencils are extremely useful and most appreciated writing instruments.
- Pencils are the most useful andappreciated writing instruments in history.
- Pencils are the most used and appreciated writing instruments of all time.
- Pencils are very useful but little appreciated writing instruments.ESPAÑOL:

-Graphite is darker than lead, but lead is softer and more breakable than graphite.
- Graphite writes darker than lead, and is also softer and more breakable than lead.
- Graphite looks...