Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1915 — KNIFE SMALLEST IN WORLD [ARTICLE]

KNIFE SMALLEST IN WORLD

Weapon Owned by Pennsylvania Man Weighs Less Than Half a Grain. Harrisburg, Pa. —Dr. John B. Temple of Marshallton has made “the smallest knife in the world.” The knife contains nine pieces; the handle is three-sixteenths of an inch long; the lining is of two pieces of silver; the outside is two pieces of 18-karat gold; the blade is steel one-eighth of an inch long; there are three rivets in the handle through side pieces; the rivets are five one-thousandth of an inch in diameter; the weight of the knife is less than half a grain; the blade will open and shut and is in every way an exact counterpart of a larger knife.