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      Joseph Hardtmuth
          
          * 1758 Asparn an der Zaya,
              Austria
              + 1816 Vienna
            
          
           
        
      
      
      Joseph Hardtmuth was a successful Austrian architect, inventor and
      entrepreneur.
      In 1792, Hardtmuth established a pencil factory in Vienna after he
      succeeded
      in creating an artificial graphite pencil by mixing powdered
      graphite with clay.
      
      
        2021 J. Giesen