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  2. The Microwave Was Invented Utterly by Accident One Fateful ...

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    The true story is that it was invented utterly by accident one fateful day more than 70 years ago, when a Raytheon engineer named Percy Spencer was testing a military-grade magnetron and suddenly ...

  3. Percy Spencer - Wikipedia

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    Percy Spencer (July 19, 1894 – September 8, 1970) was an American physicist, electrical engineer and inventor, known as the inventor of the microwave oven. [ 1 ] Early life

  4. The Story Behind the Microwave - AOL

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    Percy Spencer, an engineer working for American defense contractor Raytheon, accidently discovered a new use for radar technology in the mid-1940s. ... The Story Behind the Microwave. AOL.com ...

  5. Microwave oven - Wikipedia

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    A microwave oven or simply microwave is an electric oven that heats and cooks food by exposing it to electromagnetic radiation in the microwave frequency range. [1] This induces polar molecules in the food to vibrate [ 2 ] and produce thermal energy in a process known as dielectric heating .

  6. 19 Accidental Inventions That We Can't Live Without Now - AOL

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    15. Microwave oven. Who: Percy Spencer, Raytheon Corp. engineer. When: 1945. How it was created: A self-taught engineer, Percy Spencer, was working on a radar project for the defense giant ...

  7. Talk:Microwave oven/Archive 2 - Wikipedia

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    A few seconds of research shows that Percy Spencer was an uneducated tech at Raytheon whose problem-solving skills won Raytheon the WWII contract to build the first military radar tubes, got Spencer the job as department head, and later led to Spencer's inventing of the microwave oven. The candy bar story and the popcorn story are "repeated ...

  8. Raytheon - Wikipedia

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    In 1945, Raytheon's Percy Spencer invented the microwave oven by discovering that the magnetron could rapidly heat food. In 1947, the company demonstrated the Radarange microwave oven for commercial use.

  9. Serendipity - Wikipedia

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    The microwave oven. Raytheon scientist Percy Spencer first patented the idea behind it after noticing that emissions from radar equipment had melted the candy in his pocket. [16] The Velcro hook-and-loop fastener.