Fascinating facts about Otto Rohwedder
inventor of bread slicer in 1928. |
Otto Rohwedder |
AT A GLANCE:
On occasion, you may have heard it said of
some wonderful gadget, “This is the greatest invention since sliced bread!”
This is intended to be both a compliment and a reference to how
revolutionary and world-changing the invention is. It’s worth bearing in
mind, though, that while people have been slicing bread for eons,
pre-sliced, packaged bread has only been available since 1928, when Otto Frederick Rohwedder
introduced the world’s first mechanical bread slicer. |
THE
STORY
RELATED INFO
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| Inventor: |
Otto Frederick
Rohwedder |
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Criteria; |
First practical.
Entrepreneur. |
| Birth: |
July. 7, 1880 in Des
Moines, Iowa |
| Death: |
November 8, 1960 in
Concord, Michigan |
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Nationality: |
American |
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Invention: |
bread
slicer in 1928 |
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Definition: |
noun /
bread slicer |
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Function: |
To cut or
divide a loaf of bread into
slices.The world’s first mechanical sliced bread went on sale July
7, 1928. |
| Patent: |
1,867,377
(US) issued July 12, 1932 |
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Milestones:
1912 Otto Rohwedder toys with the
idea of producing a machine to slice bread
1916 Rohwedder begins to design a machine to slice bread
1917 fire destroys his factory, prototype machine and the blueprints
1926 Toastmaster begins selling pop-up toasters
1927 Rohwedder finally saves enough money to begin again to build a
bread slicer
1928 Rohwedder files patent application for a single step bread slicing
machine
1928 forms a company Mac-Roh Sales & Manufacturing to build and sell the
bread slicer machine
1928 first mechanical pre-sliced bread goes on sale to the public in Chillicothe, Missouri
1929
St. Louis, Missouri baker, Gustav Papendick, adds improvements to
Rohwedder's machine.
1930 Wonder Bread begins selling pre-sliced bread, most bakeries follow
suit
1932 toaster sales skyrocketed, thanks to the standardized size of sliced
bread
1933
American
bakeries were turning out more sliced than unsliced bread
1933 Rohwedder sells patent rights to and goes to work for Micro-Westco,
Inc.
1934 Patent 1,970,379 issued August 14, 1934 for Slicing Machine
assigned to Papendick, Inc.
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