Alan MacMasters invented the first electric toaster in 1893. The first bread toast to pop-up and eject the toast was invented by Charles Strite. He patented it in 1919.
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The first bread slicing machine was invented by Otto Fredrick Rohwedder - this does not mean that he invented the first bread dispenser. see US Patent number 5,735,433
for Bread Dispenser which does not slice bread.
There is not a name associated with bread production because bread is one of the oldest foods known to man and has been a staple food for over 5,000 years. It even has the biblical name of The Staff of Life. Man made flour by crushing grains between two stones. The flour was mixed with water and the paste was dried in the sun, making a bread. After this, a bake stone was used to bake a risen loaf.
The Egyptians were the first to use yeast and produce risen loaves. They also invented the first oven for baking. From there on people ate every kind of bread, depending on where they lived.
Bread has been around as long as man has been grinding grain. Naturally occurring yeast may have been responsible for the first leavened bread, but before that flat breads were made by mixing ground grains with water and placing them on hot rocks beside fires to cook. Admittedly it was not as flavorful, light or fluffy as what you get today from a grocery store but it was convenient and filling.
Bread has been made since the earliest times of pre-civilization, so it is not possible to know who made the first bread.