| The very first scissors appeared in the hands of human being not just because they needed them to serve themselves but they had to cut sheep’s wool. This happened somewhere around 3500 yrs ago and at that time, scissors represented two blades, connected like tweezers.
The invention, even though it worked, was not especially successful (the blades of “sheep” scissors, which appeared for the first time in Ancient Rome, did not rotate with respect to their centre but were simply pressed by the hands of the holder) and consequently, our ancestors used them only before “warm-keeping woolen season” and it appears that they simply their gnawed nails.
This would have continued, if the mathematician and mechanical engineer Archimedes wouldn’t have been born in Ancient Syracuse. The great Greek said: “Give me the point of support and I shall overturn the entire world!” - and he invented the lever.
And only after that, approximately 1000 years ago, a craftsman thought of connecting two blades with the help of a tack and to make round handles. As time has shown, such scissors appeared to be more convenient. The simple children's riddle about scissors: “Two rings, two ends and a tack in the middle”.
And further, as always, the invention started leading its own life: from time to time, it was modernized (converting into a working instrument of hairdressers and doctors) and from time to time, becoming a luxury item made from gold and silver.
Scissors were made from steel and iron (steel blades were welded onto an iron base), the silver was gilded and richly decorated. The imagination of the manufacturers had no limits and a strange bird was manufactured, the beak of which cut the fabric, grapevines with bunches of grapes were twisted into ringlets for it's fingers and thus, instead of scissors, suddenly it turned out to be a fabulous dragon, such intricate ornaments that they obstructed the use of this functional device.
And then, standoffish Englishmen invented scissors for prim English lawns and then, Frenchmen started using the scissors for separating the carcass of a goose (preparing their famous dish “frua-gra”) and to cut eyelets into “pret-a-porte” and then the Germans made huge steel scissors to help in road accidents (this tool can also be used to break car glass, open jammed doors and to cut seat belts).
Later, person began to think more broadly and manufactured scissors from special ceramics, which appear to be three times stronger than steel scissors and more wear-resistant and which can cut much finer.
Further, scissors were manufactured which absolutely ceased to be similar to the analog-primogenitor and made a meat chopper (a disc with three blades can be mounted on an ordinary electric drill – rubber, thick leather, linoleum and plastic can be cut with the speed of 20m/min).
And then, the inventor forced his way to the “stars” and designed advanced scissors, fitting them in electronic machines, reproducing the pattern of any style conceived by the modelers on a screen. The pattern cutting speed was a meter per second! During these operations, the fabric edges are burnt and do not become loose as if already cut.
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