- Behold, sliced bread.
But where did it come from?
Meet Otto Frederick Rohwedder
born in Iowa in 1880.
Okay, okay, Otto didn't invent
the idea of sliced bread.
Bread itself is an ancient invention.
Over thousands of years many people
independently figured out
how to bake and prepare it.
However, Otto did invent
the bread slicing machine
that makes it possible to sell
loaves of bread pre-sliced.
After growing up in Iowa,
Otto moved down to Missouri
with hopes of becoming
a successful jeweler
and he was off to a good start.
He owned three stores
and seemed set for even bigger success,
but as time went on he became
more and more interested
in building a mechanical bread slicer.
Otto mulled over this idea for years
and by 1916 he decided to
sell his jewelry stores
and make his bread slicer a reality.
The mechanical bread slicer
was off to a rocky start.
Otto's first prototypebegan to relax," said Mrs James, a childminder. "I told the older children that I was expecting, and started to buy baby clothes."

Weeks later, she began to bleed heavily. Obstetricians informed her that her child had died several weeks previously. No one could say whether the miscarriage had been triggered by the invasive procedure.

Mrs James said: "I felt very guilty, and confused. I had been buying baby clothes for a child who was already dead.

"No one could say if the CVS had caused the miscarriage, I was 41, and it could have happened anyway, but I struggled with the guilt for a long time".

Charlotte Gardner, 37, a teacher for the National Childbirth Trust, had a nuchal fold scan, to detect the risk of Down's syndrome.

She was reassured to