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Hair-cutting shears. Hair-cutting shears are scissors that are specifically designed for cutting hair. They are also known as barber shears, hairdressing shears, or hair shears. They range in size from about 5 to 7 inches (13 to 18 cm) long [1] and commonly have an appendage, known as a finger brace or tang, attached to one of the finger rings.
Manual clippers were invented around 1855 by Nikola Bizumić, a Serbian barber. [1] While they were widely used in the distant past, the advent and reduction in cost of electric hair clippers has led to them largely replacing manual clippers. Some barbers in Western countries continue to use them for trimming.
A barber is a person whose occupation is mainly to cut, dress, groom, style and shave hair or beards. A barber's place of work is known as a barbershop or the barber's. Barbershops have been noted places of social interaction and public discourse since at least classical antiquity. In some instances, barbershops were also public forums.
Hair-cutting shears; Blade shears, typically used for shearing animals; Grass shears, for lawn trimming; Kitchen shears, scissors used in the kitchen for food preparation; Pinking shears, scissors the blades of which are sawtoothed instead of straight; they leave a zigzag pattern instead of a straight edge; Pruning shears, for cutting branches ...
Pliers, screwdrivers, nut drivers, wire pulling and stripping tools, crimping tools, scissors, snips, shears, cable and bolt cutters, conduit benders, personal protective equipment, tool bags for the electrical trade
Early hair tongs. A hair iron is a tool used to change the structure of the hair with the help of heat. There are three general kinds: curling tongs, also known as curling irons, [2] used to make the hair curly; straighteners, also known as flat irons, [3] used to straighten the hair; and crimpers, [4] used to create small crimps in the hair.
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Following his education in his hometown, Bizumić sought further training in the barber trade in Irig. [3] To enhance the efficiency and speed of haircuts he came up with the idea of a machine but his employer failed to comprehend the potential of his invention, prompting Bizumić to quit his job and relocate to Ruma .