Meet the American who invented sliced bread: Otto Rohwedder, hard-luck hawkeye
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Otto Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, created the invention by which all others are judged — sliced bread — in 1928. His innovation quickly changed consumer culture.
"Sliced bread is the standard of all innovation, past, present and future." — "Sliced Bread" Ed Douglas of Chillicothe, Missouri "For 15,000 years the epic of grain has been one with the epic of man." — Author Heinrich E. Jacob "Television is the greatest invention since sliced bread." — Red Skelton in 1951 "This is a very family-oriented community," Chillicothe Mayor Theresa Kelly told Fox News Digital. "We’re very proud to be the home of sliced bread." Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
It’s the greatest thing since … Well, it’s the greatest thing, according to popular acclaim.
"Sliced bread is the standard of all innovation, past, present and future," said Ed Douglas, a businessman, local historian and county commissioner from Chillicothe, Missouri.