Otto Rohwedder
Otto Frederick Rohwedder
American
Otto Rohwedder was a notable American jewler and inventor. - AsNotedIn
Otto Rohwedder was a notable American jewler and inventor. - AsNotedIn
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| 1880/07/28 | Margaret Rohwedder, wife of Claus Rohwedder, gives birth to a son, Otto Frederick Rohwedder, in Davenport, Iowa. Otto will be the second youngest of four brothers and a sister. | Born | |||||
| 1900/00/00 | Otto Frederick Rohwedder graduates from Northern Illinois College of Ophthalmology and Otology in Chicago with a degree in optics. | Education | |||||
| 1912/00/00 | Otto Rohwedder, a jeweler in St Joseph, Missouri, begins working on a machine that will evenly slice a loaf of bread. | Inventor | St Joseph, MO | Missouri | Invention of Sliced Bread | ||
| 1916/00/00 | Otto Rohwedder sells his three jewelry stores in St Joseph, Missouri, and moves back to his hometown of Davenport, Iowa, to develop of his machine to slice bread. | Inventor | |||||
| 1917/00/00 | In late 1917, a fire destroys Otto Rohwedder's blueprints for a bread slicer at a factory in Monmouth, Illinois, where he was engaged to manufacture his device. | Inventor | |||||
| 1927/00/00 | Otto Frederick Rohwedder invents an automatic bread-slicing and packaging machine for commercial use. The packaging prevents the loaf of sliced bread from going stale to quickly. | Inventor | Invention of Sliced Bread | ||||
| 1928/00/00 | Otto Rohwedder sells his first devise to friend and baker, Frank M Bench. The Rohwedder and Bench had been working on perfecting the design for the past several years. | Inventor | Bench's Chillicothe Baking Company | Chillicothe, MO | |||
| 1928/08/00 | Korn's Bakery, Davenport, Iowa, buys Otto Rohwedder's second bread-slicer. Manufactured by the Mac Roh Sales and Manufacturing Co, it is now owned by the National Museum of American History. | Inventor | Davenport | Iowa | Invention of Sliced Bread | ||
| 1928/11/26 | Mac Roh Sales and Manufacturing Co applies for a United States patent on Otto Rohwedder's bread slicing machine. | Inventor | |||||
| 1932/07/12 | United States Patent No 1,867,377 is issued to Otto Frederick Rohwedder for a machine for slicing an entire loaf of bread at a single operation. | Inventor | Invention of Sliced Bread | ||||
| 1933/00/00 | Otto Rohwedder sells his rights to his bread slicer to the Micro-Westco Co of Bettendorf, Iowa. Rohwedder becomes vice president and sales manager in its newly created Rohwedder Bakery Machine Division. | Inventor | |||||
| 1960/11/08 | Otto Frederick Rohwedder dies in Concord, Jackson County, Michigan. Mr Rohwedder is buried at Riverside Cemetery in Albion, Calhoun County, Michigan. | Died | Albion | Michigan | |||
| 1974/00/00 | Rohwedder's daughter, Mrs Margaret R Steinhauer, of Albion, Michigan, donates the 1928 bread-slicer manufactured by the Micro Machine Co to the National Museum of American History. It is now at the Grand River Muesum, 1401 Forest Drive, Chillicothe. | Inventor | Chillicothe, MO | Missouri |
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