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Some time before 1565 (some sources say as early as 1500), an enormous deposit of graphite was discovered on the approach to Grey Knotts from the hamlet of Seathwaite in Borrowdale parish, Cumbria, England. The locals found that it was very useful for marking sheep. This particular deposit of graphite was extremely pure and solid, and it could easily be sawn into sticks.
During the Napoleonic Wars, German and English pencils were not available for the French were unable to import the graphite sticks. So in 1795, N. J. Conte (Nicholas Jacques Conté, an officer in Napoleon's army) discovered a method of mixing powdered graphite with clay and forming the mixture into rods that were then fired in a kiln. By varying the ratio of graphite to clay, the hardness of the graphite rod could also be varied.
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so that people could write
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When did NJ Conte invent the pencil?
"The archetypal pencil may have been the stylus, which was a thin metal stick, often made from lead and used for scratching in papyrus, a form of early paper. They were used extensively by the ancient Egyptians and Romans. The word pencil comes from the Latin word pencillus, which means 'little tail'."wikipedia
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The pencil was not discovered but was invented by N.J Conte.
What did N.j.Conte invented in 1795?
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