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The advantage of "motor" type clippers is that they provide a positive power stroke in both directions of cutting (as the blade moves back and forth); The other type of clipper motor is the "vibrator type" clipper which, instead of having a rotating armetured motor, has a magnetic vibrating strip that pulls the blade to one side, and, as the AC ...
A manual beard clipper A hair clipper , often individually called the apparent plurale tantum hair clippers (in a similar way to scissors ), is a specialised tool used to cut human hair . Hair clippers work on the same principle as scissors , but are distinct from scissors themselves and razors .
A variety of nail clippers; the clipper on the left is in the plier style; the centre and right clippers are in the compound lever style. A nail clipper (also called nail clippers, a nail trimmer, a nail cutter or nipper type) is a hand tool used to trim fingernails, toenails and hangnails.
Depiction of Auto-5 in 1909 catalog. The Browning Auto-5 was the first mass-produced semi-automatic shotgun. Designed by John Browning in 1898 and patented in 1900, [4] it was produced continually for almost 100 years by several makers with production ending in 1998.
Visualization with paper sizes in formats A0 to A8, exhibited at the science museum CosmoCaixa Barcelona An A4 paper sheet folded into two A5 size pages. ISO 216 is an international standard for paper sizes, used around the world except in North America and parts of Latin America.
The origins of the exact dimensions of Letter size paper are lost in tradition and not well documented. The American Forest and Paper Association argues that the dimension originates from the days of manual papermaking and that the 11-inch length of the page is about a quarter of "the average maximum stretch of an experienced vatman's arms."