Kaspar Faber was born in the Langenzeen, Holy Roman Empire back in 1730. After graduating from school, he trained as a carpenter. In 1758, he moved from the town of Langenzeen to the municipality of Stein. In 1760, he settled there working as a carpenter. In 1761, he opened a small workshop where he produced pencils, which was a typical activity of the time for carpenters to do.In 1771, he made the first attempts to improve pencils by using ground graphite, mixed with sulfur, antimony and binding resins. During his lifetime his pencil production remained on a small scale, but he laid the foundation to which his great-grandson Johann Lothar Freiherr von Faber expanded. While you may not know Kaspar surely, you’ve heard and used some of his groundwork instruments. His foundation la...
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