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, ...

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 ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

American innovation can take many forms. The latest smart phone, 3-D printers are the kinds of things we talk about these days. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Well, in 1963, Daniel Thompson changed America with ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Daniel Thompson, whose automatic ...

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 ...