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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 ...

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 ...