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Sharp by name…Filed in Notes on January 7th 06 . “In 1822 two Britons (Sampson Mordan and John Hawkins) developed and patented the first mechanical pencil mechanism to propel a writing core thru a shaft allowing people to write with it. We call this device a mechanical pencil. Growing in popularity across the globe, Tokuji Hayakawa, a metal worker in Japan refined the casing using metal and sold his version as Ever-Sharp Pencil. It sold in such great numbers that he founded a company based on the name of the pencil… Sharp.”
I suppose mechanical pencils had to be invented by someone. I used to like using a ‘clutch pencil’ with the chunky lead when I was at school. The diyplanner site has a range of calendar and diary designs that can be downloaded as PDF files. The A4 set might be useful for logging activity as it happens as well as planning. This is filed under Notes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are closed for this post. |
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