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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

There's a lot of debate about who makes the best bagel in America, and it's thanks to Daniel Thompson that bagel snobs nationwide are able to have this discussion. Thompson, who died on September 3 in ...

What would our world be without bagels? What would become of our breakfast routine, our lox and cream cheese, our sense of identity as New Yorkers or denizens of Montreal? That’s a tough question to ...

Eli Whitney was a revolutionary patriot in the best sense. He was modest in the extreme, and unostentatious almost to a fault; but through these distinguishing virtues there shone a public spirit and ...

Daniel Thompson in 1968 with his bagel machine, which spurred the mass production of bagels. There's a lot of debate about who makes the best bagel in America, and it's thanks to Daniel Thompson 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 ...