Why are most pencils colored yellow? Back in the 1800's that wasn't always the case. Their were variety of colors but when L&C Hardtmuth Company of Austria released the Koh-I-Noor this pencil was such high quality that others just wanted to follow. They painted it with golden yellow so it can have the colors of the Austro- Hungarian flag along with the black led.
This picture is the inspiration of the yellow pencil
Check this out. Since the eraser and pencil was separate people had a hard time using it. Until Hyman Lipman had an idea to combine the two. He glued them together then poof the birth of the modern pencil.
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Pentiler: A person who is addicted in breaking pencils.