The Accidental Invention of the Microwave Oven
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It started with a melted chocolate bar. In 1945, an engineer named
Percy Spencer was working near a military radar system when he noticed something strange.
The chocolate in his pocket had melted. Curious, he placed popcorn kernels near the
radar they exploded. Then he tried an egg it cooked from the inside out. That’s when he realized…
the microwaves used in radar could cook food. Spencer wasn’t trying to invent anything.
He was just paying attention to a strange accident. Within two years, the first microwave
oven was built — taller than a man and weighing over 700 pounds. Today,
billions of people use one every single day… all because of a chocolate bar in
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