July 7, 1928 – Today was the day the first loaf of sliced bread was sold commercially.  The bread came from the Chillicothe Baking Company, in Chillicothe, Missouri, and the innovation was thanks to a determined engineer named Otto Rohwedder.
The machine that Rohwedder created not only sliced the bread, but it also wrapped it.
Rohwedder had conceived of the [...]