WEEK 5, Pt. 1: EOTO Presentations Reaction

 Of all the invention's presentations from other classmates the pencil was the one that stood out to me because it is the one tool I use on a daily basis at school as a kid. So I knew that they used bird feathers as a pen and dip it into ink to write with. But using bread crumbs to erase? It blew my mind. Pencil History Being able to achieve and share information is key for any modern civilization in the early human life they used cave paintings were one of the earliest form of human expression. Pencils allowed us to document information other species can communicate to others, but they do what their instincts they don't save information after they do something or to express themselves. Sometimes you can't teach an old dog new tricks or teach a man to fish he can fish for life.

Without cave paintings/documentation I don't think we could have known as much about early history than we do now. Pencils were used to draw maps of the surrounding area, create art to express themselves and to document events. In 1565 the German-Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner first described a writing instrument in which graphite, he thought it was a different type of lead that was used to create the writing part of the pencil. If pencils were hard to make then only the rich were able to write and draw and not peasants although many of them didn't know how to read. Another thing I just thought of is that quill feathers were used to write with feathers that could have been used for other things like pillows.

Would inventions or religious practices exist if it was not documented? If a carpenter died, and he was the only one who knew how to carpet tools that civilization would be screwed because they don't have the knowledge to do so. An example in today would if there wasn't any farmers, plumbers, electricians society would not last very long because of how diverse people's skill sets are you didn't have to be a farmer in order to survive.