Originally posted by Zone-MR@Feb 7 2004, 03:46 PM
Are you serious?<snip>
Damn serious, I'm sure.
The invention of scissors can be traced back to the earliest incarnation - the lever - first described by Archimedes around 260 BC.
Scissors made of one piece of metal - not the two-blade lever action scissors - have been found in ancient Egyptian ruins from as far back as 1500 BC.
Modern cross blade scissors were invented in Rome in about 100 AD. The common use of scissors began in about the 1500s AD in Europe.
Then again, over the years so many has ben wrong about so many things...
I like listings like this one, thank you.