Marble Making Scissors

Marble is a metamorphic rock formed when limestone is subjected to high pressure or heat.

Marble making scissors.

The best part about this marble maze is you really just need cardboard boxes scissors and a marble to make it. Or you can order a pack of colored duct tape and use the box that it comes in to make the maze. The colored duct tape is just for fun to add color. Historians point to 1846 as the invention of marbelschere marble scissors by a glass factory employee in germany.

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. If you have some definitely use it but you can make this easily without too. The marble scissors were invented around 1846 by elias greiner in lauscha. Through the second half of the 19 th century a number of marble works were opened in lauscha by the greiner muller and kuhnert.

A marble is a small spherical toy often made from glass clay steel plastic or agate these balls vary in size. Initially the scissors were used to produce glass spheres for doll s eyes. 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. However around 1850 the first playing marbles were produced.