While the mine's supply dwindled, its history ultimately cannot be erased, leading to the creation of one of the most iconic writing instruments known to man, the No. 2 pencil. The Winthrop family ...

No.2 pencils are widely used, but you may not know what the number actually refers to. This video explains how pencils developed into their modern form and the significance of the labeled numbers.

In a survey last year of 2,000 techies by the software maker Maplesoft, the trusty No. 2 pencil trumped all other products as the most freqently used design and analysis tool. Given the portability of ...

Inside a two-story warehouse, unadorned but for a 25-foot-long No. 2 pencil painted on the outside, nearly 100 employees produce around 72 million pencils a year. Johnson, 58, became president in ...

Pre-med students no longer will need a No. 2 pencil to take the Medical College Admission Test, but there will still be other issues to face. The MCAT, a prerequisite for students applying to medical ...

While the mine's supply dwindled, its history ultimately cannot be erased, leading to the creation of one of the most iconic writing instruments known to man, the No. 2 pencil. The Winthrop family ...