Inventors
Microwave
Ovens and Percy Spencer
modern
microwave oven
Microwave
Oven
The microwave oven was invented
by Percy L. Spencer.
Percy
Lebaron Spencer
Percy Spencer, while working for
the Raytheon Company, discovered a more efficient way to manufacture magnetrons.
Who
Invented Microwaves?
The microwave oven was a by-product
of another technology. It was during a radar-related research project around
1946 that Dr. Percy Spencer, an engineer with the Raytheon Corporation,
noticed something very unusual.
Robert
Hall
Hall invented the magnetron that
operates most microwave ovens, today.
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