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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 — 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 ...

Daniel Thompson, who invented the folding ping pong table and the bagel machine, has died at age 94. Daniel Thompson, Inventor Of The Bagel Machine, Dies KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: American innovation can ...