Caroline Weaver: Why the pencil is perfect
Caroline Weaver: De ce creionul este perfect
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,
atunci când folosești un creion,
audible scratchiness.
the Pencil]
with some layers of paint
și câteva straturi de vopsea
clay and water.
of people over centuries
de-a lungul secolelor
of collaboration
a very perfect object.
starts with graphite.
really useful applications
întrebuințări utile
or sheepskin or paper
piele de oaie sau hârtie
by farmers and shepherds,
fermierilor și păstorilor,
of grinding the graphite,
o metodă de măcinare a cărbunelui,
and water to make a paste.
și apă, ca să facă o pastă.
into a mold and fired in a kiln,
și arsă într-un cuptor,
a really strong graphite core
that was smooth, usable --
putând fi folosită --
that existed at the time,
that's still used in making pencils.
este folosită la fabricarea creioanelor.
in Concord, Massachusetts,
în Concord, Massachusetts,
who came up with the grading scale
scara de clasificare
hardness for general use.
pentru uzul general.
the more graphite it had in it,
cu atât avea mai mult grafit
the line will be.
the more clay it had in it
conținea mai multă argilă
they were made round.
creioanele erau rotunde.
who really mechanized the craft.
care au automatizat acest meșteșug.
to start developing actual machines
care au creat echipamente
cut grooves into the wood,
să facă adâncituri în lemn,
it was easier and less wasteful
mai ușor și mai eficient
to scratch away pencil marks
urmele de creion
și piatra ponce.
a fost adăugată în 1858,
Hymen Lipman patented the first pencil
a brevetat primul creion
was the KOH-I-NOOR 1500.
a fost KOH-I-NOOR 1500.
un lucru neobișnuit
with 14 coats of yellow paint
de vopsea galbenă
în aur de 14 carate.
for being used by a lot of writers,
pentru că este folosit de mulți scriitori,
and Vladimir Nabokov.
și Vladimir Nabokov.
the Dixon pencil company.
for the Dixon Ticonderoga.
Dixon Ticonderoga.
when they think of a pencil
când te gândești la creion
when they think of school.
a thing that, I think,
un obiect la care
has never thought twice about,
nu se gândește de două ori
the way it is,
sau de ce e făcut așa,
that can be done
nu se poate face nimic
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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