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Otto Frederick Rohwedder, American engineer, invented sliced bread (died 1960)

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Otto Frederick Rohwedder

20th-century American engineer; inventor of the first commercial bread slicer

Otto Frederick Rohwedder was an American inventor and engineer who created the first automatic bread-slicing machine for commercial use. It was first used by the Chillicothe Missouri Baking Company.
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Sliced bread

Loaf of bread pre-sliced with a machine

Sliced bread is a loaf of bread, sliced with a machine and packaged for convenience, as opposed to the consumer cutting it with a knife. It was first sold in 1928, advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped". By 1933, around 80% of…
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