Otto Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, created the invention by which all others are judged — sliced bread — in 1928. His innovation quickly changed consumer culture.

“The greatest thing since sliced bread” has been a proverbial expression for 70 years. By now it has a quaint, even faintly ironic ring--was sliced bread really greater than computers, space ...

On this day, July 7, in 1928, a bakery in Chillicothe, Mo., was the first to sell pre-cut bread using Otto Frederick Rohwedder’s invention: the automatic bread-slicing machine.

This morning at breakfast, when you spread strawberry jam on that neatly sliced slab of white toast, you should bow your head to Otto Francis Rohwedder. You should do the same when you chomp into ...

In 1928, Otto Rohwedder invented the automatic bread slicing machine, revolutionizing the way bread was sold in American households. The town of Chillicothe, Missouri, commemorates Rohwedder's ...

It was an inventor named Otto Rohwedder who knew he could improve on the whole loaf of bread. Take A Trip To The Home Of Sliced Bread - AgWeb #Plant2025 for Success ...

In 1912, Otto Frederick Rohwedder, a jeweler from Missouri, solved the problem. He invented prototype of a machine that could both slice and wrap a loaf of bread ... only to see his invention ...

Otto Rohwedder’s electrical bread slicing machine, shown here in a St. Louis bakery in 1930, revolutionized the way bread was consumed. A 2003 article published in The Kansas City Star, commemorating ...