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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 ...

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 ...

You may not know him by name, but Daniel Thompson most likely had an influence on your life. He invented the first machine that made it possible to produce bagels on a mass scale. Thompson died ...