80 years ago toady, the microwave oven was patented by Percy Spencer. The self-taught engineer from Howland, Maine, employed by Raytheon at the time, noticed that microwaves from an active radar set he was working on started to melt a Mr. Goodbar candy bar he had in his pocket. The first food deliberately cooked with Spencer’s microwave oven was popcorn, and the second was an egg, which exploded in the face of one of the experimenters. READ more… (1945)

Raytheon, who for almost its entire corporate existence made bombs for the US military, filed a United States patent application for Spencer’s microwave cooking process following further tests by him, and an oven that heated food using microwave energy from a magnetron was soon placed in a Boston restaurant for testing.

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