mechanical pencil
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mechanical pencils
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The video equipment has improved, but even now researchers often take waterproof notes by writing on pieces of PVC pipe with a mechanical pencil.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 24, 2022
He pauses and produces a mechanical pencil and a green ink pen from his pocket: “You just need this.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2021
I imagine that a core sample taken from one of these painted walls — a little cylinder the width of mechanical pencil lead, say — could be analyzed like tree rings.
From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2018
He slipped on his $5 spectacles and twisted out the lead from a yellow Paper Mate mechanical pencil.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2015
His penmanship was a sure indicator that he would have had a future at MIT, the minuscule mechanical pencil marks designed to maximize the amount of cryptic data a genius could record on one page.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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