History-Sode | The Pencil

History-Sode | The Pencil

There’s a tiny tool in your backpack with a giant history. In this kid-friendly history-sode, Auntie Jo Jo traces the pencil’s journey from a 1500s graphite discovery in England to the first wooden pencils in Germany, the invention of the rubber eraser, and why so many pencils are painted yellow.

We’ll also peek at how pencils helped soldiers, artists, and even early astronauts put ideas on paper—anywhere.


Sources used:


Encyclopaedia Britannica — “Pencil” (history, materials, manufacturing)


Smithsonian Magazine — “Why Are Pencils Yellow?” (branding and 19th-century graphite trade)


Royal Society of Chemistry — Joseph Priestley and the discovery of “rubber” for erasing (1770)


NASA History Office — Early writing tools in space (pencils and later pressurized pens)


Henry Petroski, The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (Knopf)






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