#2 Lead pencil
A sharpened #2 pencil touching lined paper. The modern day lead pencil was invented by Nicolas Jacques Conte(b. 8/4/1755). Cont̩ had the idea of mixing powdered graphite with clay and pressing the material between two half-cylinders of wood. He received a patent for his invention in 1795.
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