That's a wire running down the middle, and not only is it a wire, if you take that piano circuit, you can thumbtack into the middle of a pencil, and you can lay out wire on the page, too, and get electrical current to run through it.

Tape. Wire. Channel locks.

The wire's fine.

Red wire, Blue wire. Black is usually the ground.

He drew a straight line with his pencil.

See this wire right here?

But if the wire breaks...

Lead is the axis to this pencil

What I need to do is wind a coil.

And, I've got some wire.

Pencil

Puppets work with wires.

The puppets are controlled by wires.

You see those busted wires there?

You want to be careful with the red wire.

You know those fat, old TVs that people are chucking for high def flat screens?

It's zinc.

I've got two magnets.

Peter, get me the red wires.

Your eyes, and then your brain, are collecting all sorts of information about the pencil its size, color, shape, distance, and more.

Pencil size

Have you got lead in there? Let me, uncle Vova.

What's inside?

I'd say zinc.

I gotta, you know, strip wires and...

I think it's that loose wire again.

One of the wires is jammed. I'm going to have to loosen it.

New paper. Have some pencils.

Look what it has in the middle of it.

It feels like a wire gets reconnected.

I found your little toy and I disconnected the wires.

This is my box up here, and this is the system that works.

Someone left some barbed wire in the middle of the road.

It's no problem.

Whose pencil is this?

Latin'plumbum 'for Lead

Do you think the zinc really works?

Yeah, it's pretty good. It's pretty good.

I've lost my pencil.

I have lost my pencil.

This is a pencil.

That is a pencil.

I'm sorry I have no pencil to write with.

I'm sorry that I have no pencil to write with.

There you go.