We can find pencils everywhere: at school, at home, at the office, even on the golf course. Because they are so common we tend to take them for granted.
The Story of Pencils: Technology and Tradition is a celebration of the most useful yet least appreciated writing instrument of all time: the world's only portable, lightweight invention that can draw a line 35 miles long, write an average of 45,000 words, absorb 17 sharpenings and delete its own errors.