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GrubAmericana on Twitter: "On January 24, 1950 Percy Lebaron Spencer was issued U.S. patent #2,495,429 for the microwave oven. https://t.co/FY0izCtftK" / Twitter
Hashem Al-Ghaili - In 1945 Percy Spencer stepped in front of a magnetron, a device that powers radars. He noticed a chocolate bar in his pocket had melted. Later that year, he
Who Invented It. - Dr. Percy LeBaron Spencer: Microwave Oven. He was born in Howland, Maine on July 9, 1894 and died on September 8, 1970 at the age of 76. He
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