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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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 ...

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 ...

Daniel Thompson, a math teacher and son of a Jewish baker, realized his father's dream in 1961 when he made a machine that could replicate the fabled art of the sticky, crisp-crusted delicacy. It was ...

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 ...

Five decades ago Daniel Thompson automated the mysterious art of bagel-making, a development that sent billions of mass-produced bagels raining down on the American heartland. Some thought it a ...

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 ...