History
It is most likely that scissors were invented around 1500 BC in ancient Egypt.[1] The earliest known scissors appeared in Mesopotamia 3,000 to 4,000 years ago. These were of the 'spring scissor' type comprising two bronze blades connected at the handles by a thin, flexible strip of curved bronze which served to hold the blades in alignment, to allow them to be squeezed together, and to pull them apart when released. Cross-bladed scissors were invented by the Romans around AD 100.[2]
Pivoted scissors of bronze or iron, in which the blades were pivoted at a point between the tips and the handles, were used in ancient Rome, China, Japan, and Korea, and the idea is still used in almost all modern scissors. Spring scissors continued to be used in Europe until the sixteenth century.
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