My mother refused to eat when she became so ill and did not want any IV's or anything else. I do not think it was suicide. She lived a long life and died very peacefully and I have every assurance that she is with the Lord.
When was the Pencil Sharpener invented? The first patent for an invention to sharpen pencils was applied in 1828 by French mathematician Bernard Lassimone. The improved mechanical sharpener was invented in 1847 by Therry des Estwaux. In 1855 Walter K. Foster patented the first American pencil sharpener. Since 1917 the electric pencil sharpeners have been made for the office use..
Today pencils are numbered and/or lettered to tell us how hard the lead is. The higher the number, the harder the lead, and the lighter the markings. However, it wasn't always this way. The earliest pencils were made simply from filling a wood shaft with raw graphite. The hardness of the graphite would differ depending on the quality of the graphite, thus it was different depending on where the pencil was made. The current style of making pencils was developed in 1794 by Nicolas-Jacques Cont (1755-1805).