Where did the vegetable peeler originate?
Well there are three types, Lancashire peeler (a blunt knife with a blade curved around the handle with an elongated hole in the middle of the blade), Y-shaped peeler (Y-shaped handle with a similar blade between the two prongs) and the commonly named Australian peeler (a handle with half of it housing the blade). The pictures below should give you an idea of the shape, which is which should be self-evident. The first is the simplest and the only one specifically named, so I would deduce that it was the first. Thus the first potato/vegetabe peeler originates from Lancashire.
