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Daniel Thompson was born Abraham Thomas Thompson on January 16, 1921, in Winnipeg, Canada.
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Thompson was best known as the inventor of the first commercially viable bagel-making machine, which allowed for the mass production and mass marketing of the bagel to a wider consumer market. While Thompson was still a child, his family moved to Los Angeles, and his father set up a bakery in Boyle Heights. After graduating Fairfax High School, Thompson joined the United States Army Air Forces and served in the Pacific Ocean theater of World World War World War II He then returned home to attend the University of California and study Industrial Arts and Mathematics.
After graduating, he became a teacher, working on his own inventions in his spare time.
In 1953, his "Folding Table, Tennis Table, or the Like" was given a United States. patent. The bagel had been largely a Jewish specialty food item prior to Thompson"s invention of the "Thompson Bagel Machine," which he began building in his garage in Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles, in 1958.
