We forgot the man who invented it. Otto Frederick Rohwedder was born in Des Moines, Iowa, on July 7, 1880. His family made its way to Davenport at some point when he was a small child. His father ...

This is the second automatic bread-slicer, invented by Davenport resident Otto Frederick Rohwedder. The first fell apart after about six months of heavy use at Bench's Bakery, in Chillicothe ...

We can trace today’s version back to the 1920s. Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented the bread slicer. Before that, James Kraft ...