The answer to ragged, irregular slices that consumers got every time they had to cut a piece of bread from their store-bought loaves, Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented the Rohwedder Bread Slicer. This machine that sent the first wax paper-wrapped loaf of pre-sliced bread onto shelves measured 5 feet wide and 3 feet high.
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