Who invented scissors?
Whilst Da Vinci is most frequently credited for inventing scissors with two separate pieces of metal attached at a central pivot point, tools with a similar look and function, yet clearly a different tool, have been dated in 1500 B C, long before Da Vinci was born. They were just basically the same tool but with a different name for them.
It was not until the middle ages that the scissors started to look the way we know them today. Leonardo DaVinci, famed painter of the Mona Lisa and outstanding inventor, is most frequently credited with inventing the modern sicssor formed from two separate pieces of metal, attached at a central pivot point. However tools with a similar look and function, yet clearly a different tool, have been dated to 1500BC, long before DaVinci’s birth in 1452. These first scissors were quite different than the ones we have today, and were formed from one piece of metal, bent and sharpened on both ends in order to form the scissor blades. This basic scissors concept is still found today in the sheep shearing industry as the classic sheering instrument. Classic scissors are made of standard carbon steel. The higher the carbon content, the harder the scissors and the harder the scissors are, the longer they will perform their cutting function. Modern manufacturing techniques also include stainless stee
This post will answer that question, and also look at some interesting facts about scissors. Who Invented Scissors? No one knows who invented the first pair of scissors. We do know, however, that scissors were probably invented in Ancient Egypt in 1500BC. They were ’spring scissors’ with two bronze blades connected at the handles by a thin strip of bronze. That strip of bronze brought the scissor blades together when it was squeezed. So now you know that the Ancient Egyptians invented scissors. Let’s look at some interesting facts about scissors. Facts About Scissors • Spring scissors were used right up until the sixteenth century. • Some specialized types of scissors are poultry shears (to cut poultry), the ‘jaws of life’ (for cutting metals in rescue operations), grass/hedge shears (for cutting grass and hedges), tin snips (for cutting through tin plates and galvanized iron), kitchen scissors (for cutting through the bones of meat) and wool shears (for collecting wool from an animal-
