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A pair of scissors with orange plastic handles, the best-known product by Fiskars. Fiskars Corporation was formed in 1649, when a Dutch merchant named Peter Thorwöste was given a charter by Christina, Queen of Sweden to establish a blast furnace and forging operation in the small village of Fiskars; however, he was not permitted to produce cannons. [5]
Dressmaker's shears have a long blade, typically 7–10 in (18–25 cm), for cutting out fabric. Blades are tapered, with one pointed and one rounded tip; the blunt tip prevents fabric from snagging on seams and threads. Blades have a "knife edge": the top blade is set at an acute angle which allows the scissors to cut through fabric easily.
[1] The LMF II Infantry Knife, features a partial tang blade instead of a full tang blade, ostensibly to avoid electric shocks because the knife was designed to free pilots from downed aircraft. [2] Gerber was the first knife company to collaborate with a custom knife maker when it collaborated with World War II knife maker David Murphy. [3]
According to the book Weaponry: An Illustrated History, by Chuck Wills, between the late 16th century and the advances in repeating firearms in the mid 19th century, blades or clubs were often fitted onto guns, because only one shot could be fired from the gun.
He has any kind of scissors from a dainty silver one-inch blade affair with which proud clumsy fathers can safely trim the fragile pink nails of a new-born baby, to the fierce-looking machete or dagger. As for knives: housewives can stock a kitchen with dozens of styles of paring, peeling and slicing knives" among many others. [2]
The Swiss Army Knife was not the first multi-use pocket knife. In 1851, in Moby-Dick (chapter 107), Herman Melville mentions the "Sheffield contrivances, assuming the exterior – though a little swelled – of a common pocket knife; but containing, not only blades of various sizes, but also screwdrivers, cork-screws, tweezers, bradawls, pens, rulers, nail files and countersinkers."
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