Caroline Weaver: Why the pencil is perfect
キャロライン・ウィーバー: 鉛筆が完璧な理由
Caroline Weaver owns CW Pencil Enterprise, a wood-cased pencil specialty shop in New York City. Full bio
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of the experience of using a pencil,
音は大きな部分を占めます
audible scratchiness.
はっきり聞こえますよね
大きなアイデア
the Pencil]
鉛筆の話
with some layers of paint
clay and water.
of people over centuries
何百年もかかり
of collaboration
長い歴史があるからこそ
a very perfect object.
鉛筆は完璧な物なんです
starts with graphite.
really useful applications
便利に応用する方法が
or sheepskin or paper
絵を描いたり
by farmers and shepherds,
of grinding the graphite,
黒鉛をすりつぶし
and water to make a paste.
ペースト状にする方法を考案しました
into a mold and fired in a kiln,
型で成形して窯で焼くと
a really strong graphite core
that was smooth, usable --
that existed at the time,
that's still used in making pencils.
変わっていません
in Concord, Massachusetts,
マサチューセッツ州コンコルドでは
who came up with the grading scale
鉛筆の芯の
hardness for general use.
2が適しているとされました
the more graphite it had in it,
黒鉛の含有量が高く
the line will be.
the more clay it had in it
they were made round.
鉛筆は円柱状でした
who really mechanized the craft.
アメリカ人です
to start developing actual machines
木材に溝を入れたり
cut grooves into the wood,
開発を始めた1人だと
it was easier and less wasteful
喜ばれました
to scratch away pencil marks
1858年のことで
Hymen Lipman patented the first pencil
ハイメン・リップマンが
was the KOH-I-NOOR 1500.
「コヒノール 1500」です
with 14 coats of yellow paint
for being used by a lot of writers,
多くの作家が好んで使ったことで知られ
and Vladimir Nabokov.
ウラジーミル・ナボコフです
the Dixon pencil company.
for the Dixon Ticonderoga.
作った会社です
when they think of a pencil
when they think of school.
この鉛筆です
a thing that, I think,
has never thought twice about,
なぜ今の形になったかについて
the way it is,
ということです
that can be done
鉛筆の完成度を
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Caroline Weaver - Author, pencil store ownerCaroline Weaver owns CW Pencil Enterprise, a wood-cased pencil specialty shop in New York City.
Why you should listen
Grown from a lifelong interest and opened in 2015, Caroline Weaver's shop has garnered the attention of the New York Times, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and many other publications for its faithful dedication single object and its playful design. Weaver is also the author of The Pencil Perfect: the Untold Story of a Cultural Icon, a book on pencil history published by Gestalten in 2017.
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