Harold Joseph Fairchild

The cheese knife was created in the early 1940's by Harold Joseph Fairchild at his firm, Fairchild Engineering, and was designed specifically to cut his favorite cheese, Velveeta, so that it would not stick to the knife.  Fancy cheeses were not existent in this country and if they were, most of us could not afford them. 

Harold designed military devices for the US Government during WW Two.  He was a grad of Ohio State University who was born in 1904.