Sonja Yates broke off pencil graphite in my arm,” doesn’t sound as good as, “Hey, look. Sonya Yates broke off pencil lead in my arm.” Knowing a good pencil came early for me.

In 1832, a pencil factory started operations near the Borrowdale graphite supply. In 1916, it became the Cumberland Pencil Factory, which produced the Derwent pencils so much loved by school children.

It’s worth paying more for a top-notch mechanical pencil because the components, such as the lead-advancement mechanism and the lead-holding sleeve, hold up far longer than with 12-per-box options.

Nairobi - The bulk purchase of the wrong kind of pencil has helped delay the final results of a national census in Kenya by about eight months, the Daily Nation newspaper reported on Wednesday.

While the term pencil lead is commonly used to refer to the writing core of pencils, modern pencils thankfully do not contain actual lead given its adverse health and environmental effects.

As I mentioned in my hands-on, the Apple Pencil glides across my glossy iPad Air like a graceful ice skater (no more dealing with the cacophony of lead scraping paper). The Apple Pencil USB-C ...