The company that makes Swiss Army Knives is Victorinox, named after the founder, Karl Elsener's, deceased mother, Victoria.
The“nox” part comes from the fact that stainless steel is also known as“inox”, which is short for the French term“inoxydable”,
hence“Victorinox”.
Note: despite this article being sponsored by Victorinox, I am fully at liberty to say anything I want,
good or bad, about the Swiss Army Knife they sent me to use in this how-to article.
While we generally call them“Swiss Army Knives” today, the fact is that the Ancient Romans used pocket multi-tools a couple thousand years before the first Swiss Army
Knife was created by the Swiss company, Victorinox, in 1891.
While we generally call them“Swiss Army Knives” today, the fact is that the
Ancient Romans used pocket multi-tools(example pictured below) a couple thousand years before the first Swiss Army Knife was created by the Swiss company, Victorinox, in 1891.