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| Black Lead |
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| Black lead, pure graphite, found in Seathwaite, one of only two such deposits in the
World, began a pencil industry in Keswick. (Pencils are no longer made with black
lead.) |
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| references:- |
: 1832 (21 July):: Saturday Magazine:: p.24; article on the black lead mine and the
making of pencils : 1853 (17 December):: Illustrated Magazine of Art:: description of pencil making; available reprinted from the Cumberland Pencil Museum Hassell, Joseph: 1891 (about): Common Things and Elementary Science in the Form of Object Lessons: Blackie and Son (London):: pp.42-43 lesson 18 An Uncut Lead Pencil Mell, George: 1980: Writing Antiques: Shire Publications (Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire): album 54: ISBN 0 85263 591 2; a little about pencils Petroski, Henry: 1989: Pebcil, The: Faber and Faber (London):: ISBN 0 571 16182 0 Thomson, Ruth: 1986: Making Pencils: Watts, Franklin (London etc):: ISBN 0 86 313405 X Voice, Eric H: 1950: History of the Manufacture of Pencils: Transactions of the Newcomen Society: vol.27: pp.131-141 |
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| Remember that all booklists here are books that happen to have been found: the list
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