I’ll never forget the first mechanical pencil I tried to use. It was a gnarly mustard-yellow, and I had to twist the conical tip to advance the lead.

But, you certainly wouldn't want to suck on a "lead" pencil if it really had lead in it. In fact, lead pencils became extinct only in the early 20th century. The modern lead pencil is a very nice ...

(WYTV)-We have to go back to ancient Rome to find the first pencils, although they’re not what we use today. Back then, you wrote with a thin, metal rod called a stylus, made of lead. Today we still ...