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In 1945, Percy Spencer felt a candy bar melt in his pocket and built the microwave, changing how the world eats

We instinctively grab our microwaves without giving them a second thought. The appliance is right there to help us quickly heat up our coffee in the morning or thaw our food before dinner, becoming an ...
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A self-taught grammar school dropout invented the microwave oven at Raytheon — he was paid $2 for the patent

Percy Spencer invented the microwave oven at Raytheon after a chocolate bar in his pocket melted near an active radar magnetron in 1945. Spencer was a self-taught engineer. He had dropped out of ...