What Are the Greatest Inventions Since Sliced Bread?
The next time you use the phrase “the best thing since sliced bread,” you might want to consider how recent of an invention that is.
The first commercially-available device that made it possible to sell pre-sliced loaves in mass quantities was developed by Otto Frederick Rohwedder. His prototype was built in 1912, but it wasn’t until 1925 that it became ready for commercial use.
The first pre-sliced loaf using the Rohwedder method was produced in Chillicothe, Missouri on July 7, 1928 by the Chillicothe Baking Company. Sales of bread throughout the United States are expected to total $23.6 billion in 2016, with packaged bread totaling about $15 billion of those sales.
Consider some of the more significant technological and scientific inventions of that era. Since television was invented in 1926, it might be a pretty incredible thing, it isn’t the greatest invention since sliced bread.
1900 — First Zeppelin is designed
1903 — Wright Brothers fly first airplane
1907 — First helicopter is flown
1907 — Plastic is invented
1915 — Invention of the military tank
1926 — Invention of the television
1928 — First commercial production of sliced bread
1928 — Discovery of penicillin
1931 — Invention of electron microscope
1933 — FM Radio is patented
1938 — Nuclear fission discovered
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