Accidental Invention of the Microwave Oven
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Microwave ovens were invented by complete accident when an engineer named Percy Spencer
walked past a radar machine and the chocolate bar in his pocket melted. He was working on
military radar technology during World War Two when he noticed this strange phenomenon. Instead of ignoring
it, he got curious and started experimenting. He placed popcorn kernels near the
machine and watched them pop. Then he tried an egg, which exploded in
his colleague's face. Spencer realized the radar waves were heating the
food from the inside out. Within a year, the first commercial microwave was built,
standing over five feet tall and weighing 750 pounds. It cost about 50,000 dollars in today's
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