Thor Bjorklund Inventor of Cheese Slicer

Biography of Thor Bjorklund

Early Life

Thor Bjorklund inventor of cheese slicer is considered as the scientist of kitchen for this valuable invention by him. He was born in the year of 1880 on October 30^th in Norway. He was a Norwegian from family his descent pattern too was as same. He got his early education from his town school and later on moved to Oslo for his higher education. He was interested in studying arts but he always had a determination and a will in mind to invent something very important which could make him a famous person. Keeping in mind this thing, he joined an Arts and Crafts School of Oslo for continuance of his studies.

Career

His career is not as much interesting in context of a scientist and contrary to that, it seems a bit funny that from which background, he became an inventor. He started his apprenticeship to find any suitable job and unfortunately he found just an apprenticeship for being a carpenter. He joined and completed his apprenticeship as that and later on got his first job as a carpenter. Later on, he invented his well known thing as cheese slicer but his later career includes the running of his own company of this product.

Inventor of Cheese Slicer

Later on, he was promoted to job of a master carpenter and he started working as that. After some time, he became interested in kitchen items and household objects and started to make many things related to that. For the same thing, he started his work in carpenter plane in his own home and made numerous things but his main focus was to invent any new and productive thing. This thing led him to invent the cheese slicer and he got the patent of his invention in the year of 1925 on 27^th February.

Cheese Slicer

After patenting the object, he named it as cheese slicer and started his own company of producing the cheese slicers which is known as Thor Bjorklund and Sonner AS. The company is located in Lillehammer. Cheese Slicer is typically a household and specially a kitchen object which you can see in most of the modern kitchens. The function of the instrument is exhibiting from its named that it is used to slice and cut the cheese into smaller pieces for the eating purposes. There is a variety of cheese types varying from soft to hard cheese and hence in this case, different forms of slicer are needed to cut it in pieces. It generally consists of handle to hold and the forth side is either flat or with some shapes of cuts as designed for performing its specific function.

Death

He died in the year of 1975 on December 8^th. He was almost 95 years of age at the time of his death.