Strange, then, that he omitted to mention the very pencil with which he was making the list. Stranger still, when you realise that Thoreau's family made its money by manufacturing high-quality ...

And it's the only one left in Shelbyville, Tennessee — a town once known as "Pencil City" for being home to more than half a dozen manufacturers. Business Insider Today visited the factory back ...

specifically the pencil, but its hyphenated moniker came later. While cabinetmaker Kaspar Faber lent his name to the Germany-based manufacturing company near Nuremberg in the mid-19 th century ...

Pencils, an ubiquitous tool around the world massively used by students, particularly those enrolled in primary and secondary education, are normally not the product of a recycling process.