{"id":152,"date":"2013-01-31T18:35:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T23:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/?p=152"},"modified":"2013-04-26T16:54:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T20:54:59","slug":"do-you-know-who-invented-the-scissors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/2013\/01\/31\/do-you-know-who-invented-the-scissors\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you know who invented the scissors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The invention of scissors is frequently attributed to Leonardo DaVinci <em>(maybe Mona Lisa just needed her hair cut?)<\/em>, but scissors were around long before DaVinci&#8217;s time (1452-1519) and the actual person who invented scissors is not known.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2013\/01\/spring-scissors.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-243\" alt=\"spring scissors\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2013\/01\/spring-scissors.jpeg\" width=\"95\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1500 BC Ancient Egyptians used\u00a0\u2018spring scissors\u2019 with two bronze blades connected at the handles by a thin, flexible strip of bronze &#8211; which served to hold the blades in alignment, to allow them to be squeezed together, and to pull them apart when released.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2010\/08\/scissors-e1366986791508.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-221\" alt=\"scissors\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2010\/08\/scissors-e1366986791508.jpg\" width=\"119\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2010\/08\/scissors-e1366986791508.jpg 332w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2010\/08\/scissors-e1366986791508-166x300.jpg 166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 119px) 100vw, 119px\" \/><\/a>Pivoted scissors or cross-blade scissors were invented around 100 AD by the Romans &#8211; made\u00a0of bronze or iron, in which the blades were pivoted at a point between the tips and the handles.\u00a0Large-scale production of this type of scissors began in 1761, when Robert Hinchliffe of Sheffield, England first used cast steel to manufacture them.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Scissors, <strong><em>X-Acto knives, and\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>paper cutters are all readily available for your use in the Graphics Lab.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The invention of scissors is frequently attributed to Leonardo DaVinci (maybe Mona Lisa just needed her hair cut?), but scissors were around long before DaVinci&#8217;s time (1452-1519) and the actual person who invented scissors is not known. In 1500 BC Ancient Egyptians used\u00a0\u2018spring scissors\u2019 with two bronze blades connected at the handles by a thin, &#8230; <a title=\"Do you know who invented the scissors?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/2013\/01\/31\/do-you-know-who-invented-the-scissors\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Do you know who invented the scissors?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-facts","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/graphicslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}