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Accidental Invention of the Microwave Oven

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Microwave ovens were invented by complete accident when an engineer named Percy Spencer

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walked past a radar machine and the chocolate bar in his pocket melted. He was working on

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military radar technology during World War Two when he noticed this strange phenomenon. Instead of ignoring

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it, he got curious and started experimenting. He placed popcorn kernels near the

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machine and watched them pop. Then he tried an egg, which exploded in

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his colleague's face. Spencer realized the radar waves were heating the

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food from the inside out. Within a year, the first commercial microwave was built,

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standing over five feet tall and weighing 750 pounds. It cost about 50,000 dollars in today's

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