The story of sliced bread illustrates the freedom Americans have to act on preferences, whether those are for convenience, taste, or tradition.

In this intriguing video, a curious individual decides to test the capabilities of a bread slicer machine by placing a watermelon inside it. The result is surprisingly fascinating as the machine ...

This commercial bread-slicing machine was designed and manufactured in 1928 by Otto Frederick Rohwedder (1880-1960). It was used to slice loaves of fresh bakery bread at Korn's Bakery, in Rohwedder's ...

Bread slicing machines were common in Europe for decades, but they eventually went out of production in the 1980s as more and more people started buying bread instead of baking it themselves.

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Otto Rohwedder sold his first commercial bread-slicing machine in July 1928 and filed the patent in November. He had begun working on the project more than a decade earlier.

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