Percy spencer

Percy Lebaron Spencer was an American engineer and inventor. He became known as the inventor of the microwave oven...he was a self taught engineer....

Read 2 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Most people love microwave popcorn or a warm snack from the microwave. But before 1975, home…

On this day in 1894, Percy Spencer, the self-taught scientist who discovered the power of microwave technology, was born. With an endlessly curious mind, Spencer spent much of his early life figuring out how things worked. Orphaned as a small boy, Spencer had little schooling before he entered the workforce. But a …

Today I found out the microwave oven was invented by accident by a man who was orphaned and never finished grammar school. The man was Percy Spencer. At the age of just 18 months old, Spencer’s father died and his mother soon left him to his aunt and uncle. His uncle then died when Spencer was just seven years old. [...]

When Percy Spencer felt an odd sensation in his pocket back in 1946, it changed the way Thanksgiving meals are prepared. #microwavedmeals #percyspencer

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Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave

The 1940’s had many technological advances, but there is one invention that most households use today that was discovered quite by accident. Percy Spencer invented the microwave oven. He was employ…

The origin story of the microwave oven often mentions a detail about its accidental discovery by Percy Spencer, an engineer, in 1939, while he was testing a magnetron for the US military: Midway through his tests, Spencer is said to have put his hand in his pocket, only to find that the chocolate he’d slipped in there earlier, had fully melted.

Percy Spencer (2016)