# @kiwico on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=5kfJoIfYSU4
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/29743899-kiwico-youtube
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/fdb3b6ceec.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-04-18T20:45:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** KiwiCo (@kiwico_inc) — https://gondola.cc/kiwico_inc

## Caption

When billions of pencils are made every year, we wanted to design something a bit different. Join us, as we create a giant pencil for someone in our community. 
Tinker, create, and innovate with more hands-on discovery from kiwico.com
Video Chapters!
00:00 Can we build a giant pencil?
00:29 Let's dissect a pencil
01:06 Meet a pencil expert
02:17 Let's build a giant pencil
06:40 Big reveal!

Read More:
How Are Pencils Made?
https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/science-questions/question465.htm
“More than 14 billion pencils are produced in the world every year, enough to circle the earth 62 times.”

The Surprising History of the Pencil
https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/06/24/history-of-the-pencil/
“The modern pencil was invented in 1795 by Nicholas-Jacques Conte, a scientist serving in the army of Napoleon Bonaparte. The magic material that was so appropriate for the purpose was the form of pure carbon that we call graphite.”

9 Weird Ways Pencils Changed the World
https://www.rd.com/article/pencils-history/
“Yellow pencils have been a tradition since the late 1800s, when the best graphite in the world was produced in China.”

#KiwiCo, #pencils #science #engineering #how-to

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## Tags

engineering, science, kiwico, pencils, how

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