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Did you know that the American Civil War created a demand for good quality pencils<\/a>? The pencils were needed so that troops could make quick notes on the field, and send messages to each other.<\/p>\n

Joseph Dixon was an inventor who owned a factory in Salem, where he had been manufacturing graphite crucibles for the iron and steel industry.<\/p>\n

However, he spotted a business opportunity and went into the mass production of pencils to meet the demand generated by the war.<\/p>\n

By 1872 Dixon\u2019s company was producing 86,000 pencils a day, and consuming more graphite than any other business globally.<\/p>\n

The legendary Dixon Ticonderoga pencils were invented in 1913 and appeared all over the US in offices, classrooms and boardrooms. These yellow pencils with a rubber attached remain massively popular in the States today, and have been used by some famous writers, including Roald Dahl.<\/p>\n

In the days before computers, a pencil with an eraser was much more forgiving than a pen when writing a first draft- and pencils are great for illustrations too. They will always have a place in the artist\u2019s studio and probably a place in our hearts too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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