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 ...

Slices of white bread on a wooden board. - Kritchai7752/Shutterstock Have you ever considered how recent, relatively speaking, the invention of sliced bread was? It ...

CHILLICOTHE, Mo. – Any way you slice it, a small town in Missouri knows where its bread is buttered as the home of the wondrous innovation of sliced bread. Yes, the “greatest thing since sliced bread” ...

“The greatest thing since sliced bread” has been a proverbial expression for 70 years. By now it has a quaint, even faintly ironic ring--was sliced bread really greater than computers, space travel ...

An image of a bread-slicing machine in Popular Science, 1930 (Wikipedia) We owe sliced bread as we know it to Otto Rohwedder, who built the first commercial loaf-at-a-time bread-slicing machine. As ...

In this intriguing video, a curious individual decides to test the capabilities of a bread slicer machine by placing a watermelon inside it. The result is surprisingly fascinating as the machine ...

If Davenport ever has a slogan for sweatshirts, it should say: “Davenport, The Home Of Sliced Bread.” It was here that machine-sliced bread was invented. It ranks as one of the most resourceful ...