Thor Bjørklund was a carpenter at Lillehammer
back in 1925.
He did not like the fact that it was hard
to cut the cheese with a knife.
Using one of his carpenter tools as an inspiration,
he invented the cheese slicer - ostehøvel, in Norwegian.
Bjorklund's contribution to the world.
He started the production in 1927 and his firm has existed
at Lillehammer till now.
I found they had a website in English and in Norwegian
Cheese slicers now come in very many shapes, and the
firm also produced cake slicers, cutlery for serving
salads etc.
Imagine how sad it was to read this afternoon that
the firm had been declared bankcrupt in the end of
September 2009.
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