Otto Rohwedder of the Chillicothe Baking Company


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Otto Rohwedder of the Chillicothe Baking Company
Grand River Historical Society and Museum

Otto Frederick Rohwedder (1880-1960) was an American inventor and engineer who created the first automatic bread-slicing machine for commercial purposes. By 1927, he created a machine that slices and wraps bread. He sold his first machine to the baker Frank Bench for the Chillicothe Baking Company.


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