Daniel Thompson, the California inventor who created the automated bagel machine and changed breakfast in America forever, died this month at the age of 94. Though not everyone looks on his legacy ...

Reader [Eric Mockler] brought Louis “Lebel” Wichinsky to our attention, a colorful inventor he ran into some years back in the Borscht Belt of Upstate New York. Described as a Mel Brooks doppelgänger, ...

Today, the bagel is a celebrated culinary New York City fixture. Along with the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building and the dollar slice, it's a tourist attraction in its own right. That wasn ...

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NEW YORK — Daniel Thompson, who five decades ago automated the arcane art of bagel-making, a development — seen variously as saving grace and sacrilege — that has sent billions of mass-produced bagels ...

In 1953, Daniel Thompson patented the wheeled, folding ping pong table, but it didn't make him wealthy, his family tells The New York Times. The success of the American game-room staple, however, ...

J. Bell of Bell Bagels in Canarsie, Brooklyn, was hailing a newly designed rack oven for automated bagel baking as the future of the business. Six years later, his brother Warren was condemning that ...

Daniel Thompson — a longtime Palm Desert resident whose ingenuity led to the mass production of bagels — died in Rancho Mirage on Sept. 3. He was 94. The lifelong inventor died as a result of a head ...

It once took time and tradition to make a bagel. A baker had to roll the dough, coil it into circles, boil it, and pop the product into an oven until the bagels were glossy and brown. And not just any ...

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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Today, the bagel is a celebrated culinary New York City fixture. Along with the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building and the ...