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You can figure out _a_ way to make a pencil, but it may not be as efficient or clever as they did it the first time. Or it might be a lot more practical with mo
by freeopinion 3y ago
You can figure out _a_ way to make a pencil, but it may not be as efficient or clever as they did it the first time. Or it might be a lot more practical with modern abilities that were impossible at the time of the first pencil.
If you started today, you might not use graphite, or wood. That's ok for pencils. But it might mean we've forgotten a technique they used for making pencils that's also useful for tiny gear shafts. But we don't use it for gear shafts anymore because somebody invented the Swiss lithoscropy process.
- sfn42 3y agoI thought the whole point was that nobody knows how to make the pencil we think of as a regular pencil. There's the graphite core, the wood handle, the yellow paint, the eraser and the little metal ring holding the eraser. No one person knows how to find, extract and refine the raw materials, then turn them into those components and put it all together.