Otto Frederick Rohwedder of
Iowa,
USA invented the first automatic
bread-slicing
machine. The so-called father of
sliced bread realised around
1912 that if he was to develop a successful machine for automatically slicing bread it would need to prevent the bread the bread from going stale. His initial prototype designs held the bread firmly together with
hat pins[?] and was unsuccessful. In
1927 he designed a machine that not only sliced the bread but also wrapped it. The first machine was installed in Battle Creek,
Michigan in
1928.