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Visit the IIIF page to learn more. View manifest View in Mirador. Description This commercial bread-slicing machine was designed and manufactured in by Otto Frederick Rohwedder My husband and four children are all in a rush during and after breakfast. For their lunches I must cut by hand at least twenty slices, for two sandwiches apiece. Afterward I make my own toast. Twenty-two slices of bread to be cut in a hurry! After being initiated in January, the ban on sliced bread was lifted in March of The government said that the savings were not as much as were expected, but the quick turnaround of the ban likely had to do with the severe backlash from producers and consumers.
Apart from that slight hiccup, sliced bread has been in our lives for 85 years. In , a fire in the factory where he worked destroyed the prototype of the machine as well as the blueprints. This set Rohwedder back by several years. He again had to raise funds and re-create the machinery.
He was also at work on a companion device. Because sliced bread becomes stale more quickly, he wanted to automate the wrapping of the bread as it came out of the slicer. Rohwedder got back to work. In , he came up with a device that sliced and wrapped the bread in one process. The first machine was sold to friend and baker Frank Bench. The pop-up toaster, invented in Britain in was just becoming popular in the U. Americans were very interested in buying pre-sliced bread where the thin, even slices would fit easily into the new toaster.
Unfortunately, Rohwedder ran into trouble. As a result, other manufacturers began to encroach on sales.
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