Enduring
Victorinox: The Little Red Knife in Everyone's Drawer
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In 1884, a young cutler named Karl Elsener opened a waterwheel-powered workshop in Ibach, a poor village in the Swiss Alps, to give local men work so they would not have to emigrate. His fight to take the Swiss Army knife contract back from Germany's Solingen makers nearly bankrupted him — until he invented a spring mechanism that let tools share space on both sides of a handle, creating the…