BLACK HISTORY MOMENT: REMEMBERING JOSEPH LEE, INVENTOR OF THE AUTOMATIC BREAD CRUMB MACHINE
Joseph Lee was born July 19, 1849. He is a black inventor from Boston, Massachusetts. He was known in the food industry because he worked in a bakery as a young boy. So he prepared, cooked, and served food and later opened two successful restaurants in the Boston Area.
In the late 1890s, Lee owned and operated the Woodland Park Hotel in Newton Massachusetts for 17 years. In 1902, he opened his catering business, Lee Catering Company. This was his way of maintaining an involvement in the food services industry.
Simultaneously , he managed Squantum Inn, a summer resort in South Shores that specialized in seafood. he did not want to throw out bread that was just one day old. Therefore, he used it to make bread crumbs. So he put his effort into inventing a device that could tear crumble an grind bread into crumbs mechanically.
This invention was successfully patented on June 4, 1895. The breadcrumbs were used for a variety of dishes like croquettes batter for cakes, fried chops, and fish. He sold his rights to his bread crumbling machine to Royal Worcester Bread Crumb Company. He took that even further and invented an automatic bread-making machine.
What makes his invention to stand out more and more is it was so fast, it could perform tasks of 5 or 6 men. This process allowed it to be made cheaper and produced with high quality. The taste and texture of the bread was much better.
In the late 1890s, Lee owned and operated the Woodland Park Hotel in Newton Massachusetts for 17 years. In 1902, he opened his catering business, Lee Catering Company. This was his way of maintaining an involvement in the food services industry.
Simultaneously , he managed Squantum Inn, a summer resort in South Shores that specialized in seafood. he did not want to throw out bread that was just one day old. Therefore, he used it to make bread crumbs. So he put his effort into inventing a device that could tear crumble an grind bread into crumbs mechanically.
This invention was successfully patented on June 4, 1895. The breadcrumbs were used for a variety of dishes like croquettes batter for cakes, fried chops, and fish. He sold his rights to his bread crumbling machine to Royal Worcester Bread Crumb Company. He took that even further and invented an automatic bread-making machine.
What makes his invention to stand out more and more is it was so fast, it could perform tasks of 5 or 6 men. This process allowed it to be made cheaper and produced with high quality. The taste and texture of the bread was much better.
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