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Inventor who created the world's first bread slicer.His prototype and plans were destroyed by a fire. He came out with Kleen Maid Sliced Bread, which was produced by his slicing machine.His invention grew in popularity despite Franklin D. Roosevelt's short-lived 1943 ban on sliced bread, enacted because sliced bread required more valuable material for packaging.
BEFORE FAMEHe was educated in optometry and began his career as a jeweler, dabbling in designing a bread slicer all the while.
PERSONAL LIFEHis family was residing in Des Moines, Iowa, when he was born.
FUN FACTSEntrepreneur Otto Frederick Rohwedder were born on Wednesday, in a leap year, birthstone is Ruby, the seaon was Summer in the Chinese year of , it is 182 days until Otto Frederick Rohwedder next birthday.
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