Paper was first made in the year
105A.D.(公元). It was made by a man named Ts'ai Lun. He lived in China.
For over 500 years paper was made only in China. People in Japan learned
of paper around the year 600. As years went by, people in other places began to
make paper. The lead (铅) pencil is not made of lead. It is made
of graphite (石墨). People found graphite in 1564. They thought it was a kind of
lead. Today we still call pencils "lead pencils". The first
Wooden (木头) pencils were made by Kasper Faber. In 1761 he started making pencils
in Germany (德国). Erasers (橡皮) like those we use today were first made in 1752.
They were made in France by a man named Magellan. A man named Hyman L. Lipman
first put erasers on the ends of pencils. And that is how the pencil came to be
now.