Editing Sliced bread (section)

==History==
[[File:Chili-sliced.jpg|thumb|Chillicothe Baking Company's building in Chillicothe, Missouri, where bread was first machine-sliced for sale]]
[[File:St. Louis electrical bread slicer, 1930.png|right|thumb|This photograph depicts a "new electrical bread slicing machine" in use by an unnamed bakery in [[St. Louis]] in 1930, and may well show Rohwedder's machine in use by the Papendick Bakery Company.]]
[[Image:Us patent 1867377 sheet 2.jpg|right|upright|thumb|The multiple cutting bands in [[Otto Frederick Rohwedder|Rohwedder's]] 1928 slicer are shown in this diagram from his patent.]]
[[Otto Frederick Rohwedder]] of [[Davenport, Iowa]], United States, invented the first single loaf bread-slicing machine. A prototype he built in 1912 was destroyed in a fire,<ref name=Vorhees>{{Cite book
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  | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9h7fcZFYWVcC}}</ref> and it was not until 1928 that Rohwedder had a fully working machine ready. The first commercial use of the machine was by the Chillicothe Baking Company of [[Chillicothe, Missouri]], who sold their first slices on July 7, 1928.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.chillicothecity.org/bread/breadnews1.html#070708|title=Sliced Bread Turns 80 Years Old|date=July 7, 2008|work=Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725164718/http://www.chillicothecity.org/bread/breadnews1.html|archive-date=July 25, 2011}}</ref> Their product, "Kleen Maid Sliced Bread", proved to be a success. [[Battle Creek, Michigan]], has a competing claim as the first city to sell bread sliced by Rohwedder's machine; however, historians have produced no documentation backing up Battle Creek's claim.<ref>Wenske, Paul. "[http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/ABOUT-WORDS/2004-01/1074732264 History of sliced bread little known on 75th anniversary]". Kansas City Star, July 28, 2003.</ref> The bread was advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped".

[[St. Louis]] baker Gustav Papendick bought Rohwedder's second bread slicer and set out to improve it by devising a way to keep the slices together at least long enough to allow the loaves to be wrapped.<ref name=Vorhees /> After failures trying [[rubber band]]s and metal pins, he settled on placing the slices into a [[Paperboard|cardboard]] tray. The tray aligned the slices, allowing mechanized wrapping machines to function.<ref>Hammack, William. (2003). Commentary from Bill Hammack's Engineering and Life radio program. [http://www.engineerguy.com/comm/4263.htm Text available] from Engineerguy.com. Retrieved September 21, 2006.</ref>

W.E. Long, who promoted the [[Holsum Bread]] brand, used by various independent bakers around the country, pioneered and promoted the packaging of sliced bread, beginning in 1928.<ref>[http://www.holsum.com/history.shtml Holsum – History] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070110062121/http://www.holsum.com/history.shtml |date=January 10, 2007 }}</ref> In 1930, [[Wonder Bread]], first sold in 1925, started marketing sliced bread nationwide.

In the United Kingdom, the first slicing and wrapping machine was installed in the Wonderloaf Bakery in [[Tottenham]], London, in 1937. By the 1950s around 80% of bread sold in Britain was pre-sliced.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Shaw|first=Alan|title=On this day in 1928, the first sliced bread was sold|url=https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/on-this-day-in-1928-the-first-sliced-bread-was-sold/|access-date=2021-07-07|website=The Sunday Post|date=July 6, 2017 |language=en-US}}</ref>