Marble Making Scissors

Initially the scissors were used to produce glass spheres for doll s eyes.

Marble making scissors.

Marble is a metamorphic rock formed when limestone is subjected to high pressure or heat. Through the second half of the 19 th century a number of marble works were opened in lauscha by the greiner muller and kuhnert. The marble scissors were invented around 1846 by elias greiner in lauscha. However around 1850 the first playing marbles were produced.

A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate these balls vary in size. The colored duct tape is just for fun to add color. If you have some definitely use it but you can make this easily without too. In its pure form marble is a white stone with a crystalline and sugary appearance consisting of calcium carbonate caco 3 usually marble contains other minerals including quartz graphite pyrite and iron oxides these minerals can give marble a pink brown gray green or variegated coloration.

A molten glass rod would be forcefully inserted into the cup and the worker would then twist the cup which would help form the. Historians point to 1846 as the invention of marbelschere marble scissors by a glass factory employee in germany. The best part about this marble maze is you really just need cardboard boxes scissors and a marble to make it. Making the ramps now take the biggest triangle and draw the marble ramps using a pen and ruler make the ramps 1 5cm or a bit bigger depending on the size of your marbles once you ve finished drawing the ramps take some scissors and cut them out.