Sunday, January 18, 2009

Scissors

Tijeras
Scissors

Tiger
Gen 1:4
"And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness."

Pro 3:12
" For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son [in whom] he delighteth.
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Puna basking in the sun
In eastern Asia, the tiger is considered the King of Beasts, representing royalty, fearlessness and wrath.
Chess: "keystone" "clave" "clue" "Eye of the Tiger"




Chess: "Keystone" "Tijeras" "Scissors" "Tiger" "clave" "clue" "Eye of the Tiger"

Scissors

Scissors are hand operated cutting instruments. They consist of a pair of metal blades connected in such a way that the blades meet and cut. Scissors are used for cutting various thin materials, such as paper, cardboard, metal foil, thin plastic, cloth, rope and wire. Scissors can also be used to cut hair and food.
It is most likely that scissors were invented in 1500 BC in ancient Egypt.[1] The earliest known scissors appeared in the Middle East 3,000 or 4,000 years ago. These were of the 'spring scissor' type comprising two bronze blades connected at the handles by a thin, curved strip of bronze. This strip served to bring the blades together when squeezed and to pull them apart when released.


Scissors from the Chinese Tang dynasty (618-907 AD)
Cross-bladed scissors were invented by the Romans around AD 100.
Pivoted scissors of bronze or iron, in which the blades were connected at a point between the tips and the handles, were used in ancient Rome, China, Japan, and Korea. Spring scissors continued to be used in Europe until the sixteenth century and the idea is still used in almost all modern scissors.

Early manufacture

During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, spring scissors were made by heating a bar of iron or steel, then flattening and shaping its ends into blades on an anvil. The center of the bar was heated, bent to form the spring, then cooled and reheated to make it flexible.
Pivoted scissors were not manufactured in large numbers until 1761, when Robert Hinchliffe produced the first pair of modern-day scissors made of hardened and polished cast steel. He lived in Cheney Square, London and was reputed to be the first person who put out a signboard proclaiming himself "fine scissor manufacturer".[2]
During the nineteenth century, scissors were hand-forged with elaborately decorated handles. They were made by hammering steel on indented surfaces known as bosses to form the blades. The rings in the handles, known as bows, were made by punching a hole in the steel and enlarging it with the pointed end of an anvil.



Fiskars scissors 1967
In a part of Sweden (now in Finland) an ironworks was started 1649 in the hamlet "Fiskars" between Helsinki and Turku. In 1830 a new owner started the first cutlery works in Finland, making, among other items, scissors with the trade mark Fiskars. Fiskars Corporation introduced new methods in the manufacturing of scissors in 1967.

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