Caroline Weaver: Why the pencil is perfect
Caroline Weaver: Por que o lápis é perfeito?
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,
da experiência de usar um lápis,
audible scratchiness.
the Pencil]
with some layers of paint
com algumas camadas de tinta,
clay and water.
of people over centuries
de pessoas durante séculos
of collaboration
a very perfect object.
um objeto perfeito.
starts with graphite.
really useful applications
aplicações muito úteis
or sheepskin or paper
pele de carneiro ou papel
by farmers and shepherds,
por fazendeiros ou pastores,
of grinding the graphite,
uma forma de triturar a grafite,
and water to make a paste.
e água para fazer uma pasta.
into a mold and fired in a kiln,
dentro de um molde e queimada no forno,
a really strong graphite core
de grafite muito forte
that was smooth, usable --
that existed at the time,
que já existia naquela época,
that's still used in making pencils.
utilizado na fabricação de lápis.
in Concord, Massachusetts,
em Concord, Massachusetts,
who came up with the grading scale
a escala de classificação
hardness for general use.
ideal para tarefas gerais.
the more graphite it had in it,
mais grafite tinha na composição,
the line will be.
the more clay it had in it
mais argila havia
they were made round.
eles eram redondos.
who really mechanized the craft.
que mecanizaram a produção.
to start developing actual machines
a desenvolver máquinas
cut grooves into the wood,
faziam sulcos na madeira,
it was easier and less wasteful
e com menos desperdício
to scratch away pencil marks
Hymen Lipman patented the first pencil
Hymen Lipman patenteou o lápis
was the KOH-I-NOOR 1500.
foi o KOH-I-NOOR 1500.
with 14 coats of yellow paint
com 14 camadas de tinta amarela
for being used by a lot of writers,
por ser usado por muitos escritores,
and Vladimir Nabokov.
e Vladimir Nabokov.
the Dixon pencil company.
for the Dixon Ticonderoga.
pelo Dixon Ticonderoga.
when they think of a pencil
quando falamos em lápis
when they think of school.
a thing that, I think,
has never thought twice about,
nunca pensou duas vezes,
the way it is,
é feito do jeito que é,
that can be done
que possa ser feito
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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