A power-driven wool-clipping device, its handpiece operating much like hair clippers: a toothed cutter driven back and forth over a comb removes the fleece from a sheep. It sheared far faster and more consistently than hand blade shears, transforming the pace of large-scale sheep stations. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Introduced Year OriginMachine shears were invented by the Australian sheep grower Frederick York Wolseley, whose Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Company began manufacturing the handpieces in Birmingham, England, after 1888. By 1915 most large Australian shearing-shed operations had adopted the machines, at first steam-powered and later run from internal combustion engines. 1 Connections
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the mechanical shearing machine removes wool from sheep
Sources
1. Sheep Shearing (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationMachine shears subsection under Shearing devicesQuote, Machine shears subsection under Shearing devices
Machine shears, known as handpieces, operate in a similar manner to human hair clippers
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