Caroline Weaver: Why the pencil is perfect
Caroline Weaver: Dlaczego ołówek jest idealny
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,
kiedy używamy ołówka.
audible scratchiness.
the Pencil]
with some layers of paint
clay and water.
of people over centuries
of collaboration
a very perfect object.
że ołówek jest taki idealny.
starts with graphite.
really useful applications
or sheepskin or paper
baranią skórą albo papierem
by farmers and shepherds,
of grinding the graphite,
metodę mielenia grafitu,
and water to make a paste.
i wodą, aby stworzyć papkę.
into a mold and fired in a kiln,
w formie i wypalano w piecu.
a really strong graphite core
bardzo twardy grafitowy rdzeń,
that was smooth, usable --
gładki i łatwy w użyciu.
that existed at the time,
innego w tamtych czasach
that's still used in making pencils.
tej metody do wytwarzania ołówków.
in Concord, Massachusetts,
w Concord w stanie Massachusetts,
who came up with the grading scale
w której różne stopnie
hardness for general use.
nadawał się do codziennego użytku.
tym więcej zawierał grafitu,
the more graphite it had in it,
the line will be.
the more clay it had in it
tym więcej zawierał gliny,
była jaśniejsza i cieńsza.
they were made round.
ręcznie i były one okrągłe.
who really mechanized the craft.
to start developing actual machines
stworzył prawdziwe maszyny,
cut grooves into the wood,
wycinały w nich rowki
it was easier and less wasteful
i bardziej oszczędne jest
to scratch away pencil marks
przyczepiono gumkę w 1858 roku,
Hymen Lipman patented the first pencil
opatentował pierwszy ołówek
was the KOH-I-NOOR 1500.
to KOH-I-NOOR 1500.
with 14 coats of yellow paint
14 warstwami żółtej farby,
w 14-karatowym złocie.
for being used by a lot of writers,
że używało go wielu pisarzy,
and Vladimir Nabokov.
i Władimir Nabokow.
the Dixon pencil company.
która produkuje ołówki.
for the Dixon Ticonderoga.
when they think of a pencil
when they think of school.
a thing that, I think,
has never thought twice about,
się nie zastanawia,
the way it is,
i dlaczego właśnie tak,
that can be done
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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