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  2. How Pencils Are Made | Made Here | Popular Mechanics - AOL

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    In this episode of MADE HERE, we’re taking you through the pencil-making production process—from colored pencils, to sketching pencils, and the everyday classic pencil. The beloved ...

  3. Pencil - Wikipedia

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    A pencil (/ ˈ p ɛ n s ə l / ⓘ) is a writing or drawing implement with a solid pigment core in a protective casing that reduces the risk of core breakage and keeps it from marking the user's hand. Pencils create marks by physical abrasion, leaving a trail of solid core material that adheres to a sheet of paper or other surface.

  4. Technical drawing tool - Wikipedia

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    Traditional and typical styli used for technical drawing are pencils and technical pens. Video of a 1930s dotted-line drawing pen. Pencils in use are usually mechanical pencils with a standard lead thickness. The usual line widths are 0.35 mm, 0.5 mm, 0.7 mm and 1.0 mm. Hardness varies usually from HB to 2H.

  5. New Jersey's General Pencil Pours Its Heart Into Art - AOL

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    But even if General's pencil-making process is still defined by the 28 patents Weissenborn filed in the late 1800s on machines that date back to that time, the strategy for how a pencil company ...

  6. Engineering drawing - Wikipedia

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    The process of producing engineering drawings is often referred to as technical drawing or drafting (draughting). [1] Drawings typically contain multiple views of a component, although additional scratch views may be added of details for further explanation.

  7. Hectograph - Wikipedia

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    The special aniline dyes for making the master image came in the form of ink or in pens, pencils, carbon paper and even typewriter ribbon. Hectograph pencils and pens are sometimes still available. Various other inks have been found usable to varying degrees in the process; master sheets for spirit duplicators have also been pressed into ...

  8. Technical drawing - Wikipedia

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    The drawing must show every feature of the invention specified in the claims and is required by the patent office rules to be in a particular form. The Office specifies the size of the sheet on which the drawing is made, the type of paper, the margins, and other details relating to the making of the drawing.

  9. Mechanical pencil - Wikipedia

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    A mechanical pencil or clutch pencil is a pencil with a replaceable and mechanically extendable solid pigment core called a "lead" / ˈ l ɛ d /. The lead , often made of graphite , is not bonded to the outer casing, and the user can mechanically extend it as its point is worn away from use.