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Â· just now. 1  A pencil represents the Freedom of speech & writing, the freedom to jot down one's ideas, beliefs, philosophies, world-views, ideologies & help spread the word. It is the symbol of Imagination - the writer/artist using a pencil, can paint a picture of the whole universe & more for anyone to see & read.
Today pencils are numbered and/or lettered to tell us how hard the lead is. The higher the number, the harder the lead, and the lighter the markings. However, it wasn't always this way. The earliest pencils were made simply from filling a wood shaft with raw graphite. The hardness of the graphite would differ depending on the quality of the graphite, thus it was different depending on where the pencil was made. The current style of making pencils was developed in 1794 by Nicolas-Jacques Cont (1755-1805).