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Show EFFICIENT ABOVE ALL THINGS Human Ingenuity Haa Never Constructed Con-structed Machine of Qreater Par. fectlen Than the Shears. Itecurrlng to the very high efficiency of shears although the use of the word "pair" la i-orrect when one remembers re-members that each blade Is an old Fngllsb "seear." or cutter the Inventor Inven-tor must ahave been n practical me chHiilc He was, prubably, one f the . earliest of Inventors, because among the pictures on the walls of the mes tuba, or tomb, of Tl. at ancient Mem phis, shears are pictured for clipping wool 1'rom sheep and goats. The de ceased Tl must have been a person of much importance in the h'lfih tlj nasty (SHOO H. C). although he mod estly descri'ied himself as "Keeper of the Pyramids." Therefore shears were In familiar use 4,.rSl years ago and their general form has not heen Improved upon. This Is due to the true engineering principle behind the shears. The Invention would appear to have sprung fell nVdgcd Into the world, like Minerva from the brain of Jupiter. Imagination Is required to picture the admiration wltli which the first tiser of a pair of shears contemplated the perfection of the service rendered Although Al-though he probably did not recognise the fact, the cmclenoy of the shears la ! 90 0-111 per cent perfection. |