Scissors were first used during the Bronze Age. However, things similar to scissors had been in use as domestic tools many years before the invention of real scissors.
It was in Mesopotamia, around 3500 BC, that bronze was first invented. This turned out to be the best resource for sharper blades. Scissors were first used in Europe and Asia around 1000 BC. Those ancient scissors consisted of two blades Joined together using a C- shaped spring. Though the basic design of scissors remained unchanged for a long time, more beautified and decorative ones were made using silver, gold, pearl and diamonds.
However, the modern-day scissors were said to have taken their shape in the Roman Empire and the Far East. In 1761, the Sheffield metal worker Robert Hinchcliffe began to manufacture and commercialize scissors. He used cast steel for stronger and sharper blades.
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