Melted chocolate inspires the microwave
Not only was the microwave discovered by accident, it was also discovered by a man who had not even completed high school. At the age of 12, Percy Spencer left education to work in a spool mill and was later hired to install electricity in a nearby paper mill. In the 1920s, Spencer began working as an engineer for Raytheon, a company that went on to improve radar technology for Allied forces in World War II. One day, he was stood in front of an active radar magnetron when he noticed the chocolate bar in his pocket had melted. He began testing the effects of magnetrons on other foods, and invented the first true microwave oven by attaching a high-density electromagnetic field generator to an enclosed metal box. The oven was a success, and in 1945 the company filed a patent for the first commercial microwave.
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| Percy Spencer |
Born in 1893, at eighteen months old Spencer’s father died and his mother left him in the care of his aunt and uncle. Despite his difficult start, he would become one of the world’s most famed physicists
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