in November 1917 — and with it his prototype bread slicer and the blueprints for it. Rohwedder suffered one other setback, according to Douglas. He suffered a respiratory illness that doctors ...

Still, some people were bewildered by the concept itself, according to the Smithsonian Museum, where Rohwedder’s second bread slicer resides. (The first fell apart after six months of heavy use.) ...

An original design of Otto Rohwedder’s bread slicer. (Greater Chillicothe Visitors Region) It appeared on the front page of the Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune on July 6, 1928, the day before ...

That phrase morphed into today's idiom, "the greatest thing since sliced bread." Rohwedder's first bread slicer is showcased in The Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Read next ...

Rohwedder wasn’t the first to attempt making an automated bread slicer, according to the Atlantic: “While the earlier bread-cutting devices using parallel blades appear in America in the 1860s ...

Even though the idea of sliced bread took off like a shot, it took the inventor of the bread-slicing machine years to convince bakers to try his invention. Flickr/SliceofChic Some products are so ...

The bread slicer debuted in the bakery in 1928 and quickly became a success. Wonder Bread was one of the first companies to ...

This is Rohwedder's second automatic bread-slicer, the first having fallen apart after about six months of heavy use at Bench's Bakery, in Chillicothe, Missouri. The public loved the convenience ...

It then went on to claim: "Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented the bread slicer in 1928, while Queen Elizabeth was born in 1926." The photo, which earned 260 comments and has been liked more than ...