Otto Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, created the invention by which all others are judged — sliced bread — in 1928. His innovation quickly changed consumer culture.
Otto Rohwedder gave the world an innovation by which all others are compared. Rohwedder, a native of Davenport, Iowa, invented sliced bread. 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.
Rohwedder graduated from the Illinois College of Optometry in 1900 with a degree in optics. He ended up in the jewelry business, reportedly apprenticing in the trade as a teenager. He operated three jewelry shops in St. Joseph, Missouri. The business struggled, by many accounts. 'Television is the greatest invention since sliced bread.
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.' The state assembly declared July 7 to be Sliced Bread Day in Missouri in 2018. The 2024 Sliced Bread Day Festival in Chillicothe is scheduled for Saturday, June 29. The community hopes that Rohwedder will be rediscovered and earn his place among the great inventors in human history.
Perhaps it’s asking too much. Bread, and now sliced bread, is so ingrained in human existence, we instinctively assume it’s always been there, like the oceans or the stars. Surely something so essential to life could not be invented by man. 'History celebrates the battlefield whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive,' influential 19th-century French naturalist Jean-Henry Fabre wrote philosophically of bread.
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