Thor Bjørklund

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Thor Bjørklund was a Norwegian carpenter who is best known as the inventor of the cheese slicer.

He was annoyed that he could not get slices as thin as he wanted when he sliced cheese with a knife. Therefore in Lillehammer he began to experiment with a plane in the hope that he could create something similar for use in the kitchen. He succeeded. To start with, he made cheese slicers from his workshop, and on 27th February 1925 he patented the object which is today found in most households in the Nordic countries. In 1927 he started the firm today known as Thor Bjørklund & Sønner AS. They still produce cheese slicers in Lillehammer.

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• Thor Bjørklund & Sønner AS