Pencils

As you well know, pencils are very a common writing utensil used everywhere to write on paper.

Pencils started with Camel's hair, "yes Camel hair", to make a brush before pencils were made.

Now scribes in ancient Egypt were using a type of pencil called lead point or silver point.

The value of graphite would soon be realized to be huge, mainly because of the use of graphite for pencils. but most of the graphite for pencils had to be smuggled or stolen from the graphite mines.

Around 1560s, an Italian couple named Simon and Lyndiana Bernacotti produced what are probably the first blueprints for the current, wood-encased carpentry pencil.

The first endeavor to manufacture graphite rods from powdered graphite was in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1662. It used a combination of graphite, antimony, and sulfur.  

the American colonists imported pencils from Europe until after the American Revolution.

On March 30, 1858, Hymen Lipman acquired the first patent for connecting an eraser to the end of a pencil.

After all of that, we have normal color pencils, charcoal pencils, liquid, watercolor, and many other pencils, for current usage.

Then after that then the mechanical pencils were first created.

And after all of that, the rest is from then to now.