Sliced bread -- that is, loaves of bread sold pre-sliced to make our favorite sandwiches or freshly buttered toast extra convenient -- is a relatively recent invention. The bread-slicing machine was ...

Sliced bread is something we take for granted today. It feels like it's been around awhile, but in the grand scheme, it's ...

The sliced bread machine on loan to the Grand River Historical Society and Museum will remain in Chillicothe for at least another three years, Pam Clingerman, curator of the Grand River Historical ...

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 ...

We’ve all heard the phrase, “the greatest thing since sliced bread,” but where did it begin? It was an inventor named Otto Rohwedder who knew he could improve on the whole loaf of bread. “He’d spent a ...

A Missouri bakery became the first to sell pre-sliced bread using a machine invented by Iowa native Otto Frederick Rohwedder. Marketed as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread ...

"That's the greatest thing since sliced bread!" Everyone says that phrase, but no one actually knows who came up with the genius invention. Otto Frederick Rohwedder is one of the world's most ...

Decades ago Otto Rohwedder made history when he invented sliced bread in Chillicothe, Missouri. Now, ninety years later, the city is hoping to take its claim to fame one step further by creating a ...