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The first bread slicer was invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder in America in 1912. He brought the idea to local bakers, but they rejected it because they said pre-cut loaves would go stale quicker. By 1928, however, he had invented a machine that both sliced and packaged loaves. It wasn't until the industrialisation of bread production in the Fifties that the concept of sliced bread really came into its own - by this time, white loaves were available to the masses and no longer the preserve of the posh. Which invariably meant the middle classes slowly began to look elsewhere for their daily bread; culminating in the current madness of artisan (unsliced) Poilane loaves at a tenner a time. Telegraph UK - 09/02/2006
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