His father had been trying to make a working automatic bagel-making machine for most of his life to advance his baking business,[1] and Daniel was following in his footsteps.
In 1958, Daniel Thompson started construction of the first successful automatic bagel-making machine in his garage in Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles.
[2] Five years after he started construction of the bagel machine, he leased the successful and perfected design to Murray Lender, who owned a family-run bagel-making business.
[2] The first automated bagel-making machines were introduced to New Haven, Connecticut, Buffalo, New York, and St. Louis, Missouri in 1963, producing between 200 and 400 bagels per hour.
The automatic bagel-making machine popularized the bagel, leading to it being featured in many supermarkets and restaurants around the world.