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The usefulness of graphite for pencils was discovered as well, but initially graphite for pencils had to be smuggled out of England. ... China First Pencil Co. China ...
During the 1860s, people typically wrote with quill pens and ink even though Dixon introduced graphite pencils in 1829. But the American Civil War created a demand for a dry, clean, portable writing instrument and led to the mass production of pencils. At the time of Dixon's death in 1869, the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company was the largest ...
Hawkins was born 14 March 1772 at Taunton, Somerset, England, [1] the son of Joan Wilmington and her husband Isaac Hawkins, [2] a watchmaker. The father, Isaac Hawkins, would become a Wesleyan minister, but was expelled by John Wesley; and after moving the family to Moorfields in London he was a minister in the Swedenborgian movement, which John Isaac would also follow.
Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS [2] (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin.
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Detail of the first patent for a mechanical pencil. Sampson Mordan, 1822. Conrad Gessner described a lead holder pencil in 1565, but the lead had to be manually adjusted to sharpen it. [2] The earliest extant datable example of a mechanical pencil was found aboard the wreckage of HMS Pandora, which sank in 1791. [3]
Dinosaur fossils have been discovered in Hong Kong for the first time, on a remote island in the financial center’s countryside.
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