BBC TWO: Inside the Factory: Pencils

Sarah Haigh

Materials Engineering

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BBC2's Inside the Factory looked at the history of the modest pencil - and the programme spanned a German factory which produces 600,000 pencils a day to our National Graphene Institute, looking at the properties of graphite (approx. 20mins in).

Period	19 Mar 2019

Media contributions

Title	Pencils
Media name/outlet	BBC Two
Media type	Television
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
Date	19/03/19
Description	BBC2's Inside the Factory looked at the history of the modest pencil - and the programme spanned a German factory which produces 600,000 pencils a day to our National Graphene Institute, looking at the properties of graphite (approx. 20mins in).
URL	https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0003g7w/inside-the-factory-series-4-9-pencils
Persons	Sarah Haigh

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Keywords

graphene
graphite
pencils
materials