Rohwedder, a native of Davenport, Iowa, invented ... bread appeared to end when fire destroyed his factory in nearby Monmouth, Illinois, in November 1917 — and with it his prototype bread slicer ...

the ovens and machinery of which are the invention of H. Ber-dan, of New York city, which is capable, when worked up to its full capacity, of converting into bread the enormous quantity of 1,000 ...