Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

Today in 1827, Joseph Dixon began manufacturing pencils at his factory in Salem, Massachusetts, so it's a good day to go back through the centuries and centuries that helped make the pencil what it is now. Plus: there's a vintage and specialty pencil shop in Wisconsin called the Pencillarium! The Write Stuff: How The Humble Pencil Conquered The World (Popular Mechanics) A Visual History of the Pencil (Museum of Everyday Life) 9 Weird Ways Pencils Changed the World (Reader's Digest) You Won’t Find Another Store Like The Pencillarium In Wisconsin (Only in Wisconsin) Our backers on Patreon are always worth writing home about --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message