government’s brief attempt to un-slice bread was met with a furious backlash. Within a decade, and despite the twin financial pressures of the Great Depression and World War II, sliced bread quickly became a staple in American households.
She says the bread slicing display has been a helpful tool for people to connect with the bigger importance of what this innovation has meant in history. KCUR 89.3 Pam Clingerman works at the Grand River Historical Society Museum in Chillicothe, Missouri. And in 1930, Continental Baking Company - one of the first bakeries to produce fortified bread - introduced Wonder Bread, a manufactured, pre-sliced loaf now widely available to the public. Uniformed sliced bread helped boost the sales of the dual-sided pop-up automatic toaster, which was first patented in 1921. Rohwedder’s innovation couldn’t have come at a more perfect time: the culmination of nearly 50 years of rapid industrialization, when more and more manufactured products were geared towards ease and convenience. “And bakers were really knocking down his door,” she says. Within two weeks, Ripley says the amount of bread Bench’s bakery sold went up 2,000%. The next day, on July 7, 1928, sliced bread from Rohwedder’s machine was made available to the world for the first time. As one considers this new service one cannot help but be won over to a realization of the fact that here indeed is a type of service which is sound, sensible and in every way a progressive refinement in Bakers bread service." Certainly it represents a definite departure from the usual manner of supplying the consumer with bakers loaves. The ad went on: "The idea of sliced bread may be startling to some people. took out an ad in the newspaper The Constitution-Tribune on July 6, 1928, announcing the arrival of sliced bread. “Bakers scoffed at the idea,” says Ripley. So he sold his jewelry business and went all in on building another bread slicing machine.īut he had a hard time finding anybody who would actually want to use it. Rohwedder soon fell ill, and his doctor told him he didn’t have long to live. “All of his design plans, his equipment, everything. Ripley says that Rohwedder’s invention was all ready to be manufactured at a plant in Illinois when the factory was destroyed in a fire. By 1917, his bread slicing machine was ready for production: a 10-foot-long metal box with a row of sharp blades, pulsating up and down and side to side. It was Otto Rohwedder, a jeweler from Davenport, Iowa, who came up with the idea for a machine that could quickly create a perfect set of slices from a bread loaf. The slices wouldn’t be a uniform width or shape, and sometimes might get smushed in the process.
This means that it is now 14:04 () in Overland-Park and 21:04 () in Amsterdam.KCUR 89.3 Frank Bench's old bakery, where machine sliced bread was first made available to the public in 1928 has since been converted to a welcome center for Chillicothe, Missouri.įor most of history, if you wanted a slice of bread, you had to take a knife and cut it yourself. The time difference between Overland-Park (America/Chicago) and Amsterdam (Europe/Amsterdam) is 7 hours. The shortest route between Overland-Park and Amsterdam is according to the route planner. The shortest distance (air line) between Overland-Park and Amsterdam is 4,505.09 mi ( 7,250.24 km). The geographic midpoint between Overland-Park and Amsterdam is in 2,252.54 mi ( 3,625.12 km) distance between both points in a bearing of 79.03°. The initial bearing on the course from Overland-Park to Amsterdam is 79.03° and the compass direction is E. Similar flight routes: MCI → EIN, MCI → BRU, MCI → DUS, MCI → FMO, JLN → AMS Bearing: 79.03° (E) This corresponds to an approximate flight time of 9h 2min. The flight distance between the nearest airports Overland-Park ( MCI) and Amsterdam ( AMS) is 4,514.92 mi ( 7,266.06 km).
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