allowing you to have full control over the amount of lead used while drawing. Clutch pencils also typically hold 2mm lead, which is relatively thick and less fragile. This allows artists and ...

True or false: You can get lead poisoning if you’re stuck with a lead pencil. False. Lead pencils contain graphite (a form of carbon), not lead. In fact, contrary to what many people believe ...

Pencil sales in the United States increased 6.8 percent last year, according to a study by the NPD Group. A major beneficiary of this low-tech uptick is Dixon Ticonderoga, the world's largest ...

Philadelphia inventor Hymen L. Lipman rushed heroically to the aid of mistake-prone schoolchildren, draftsmen and artists everywhere when he secured the patent for the pencil with eraser on this ...