SkippyDeals.com Just type Vat 19 in search bar Curiously awesome gifts available at SkippyDeals.com from Vat19 The Ultimate gift for those that have everything! Accidental Inventions, Educational DVD’s available at VAT19. n 1945 Percy Lebaron Spencer, an American engineer and inventor, was busy working on manufacturing magnetrons, the devices used to produce the microwave radio signals that were integral to early radar use. Radar was an incredibly important innovation during the time of war, but microwave cooking was a purely accidental discovery. While standing by a functioning magnetron, Spencer noticed that the chocolate bar in his pocket had melted. His keen mind soon figured out that it was the microwaves that had caused it, and later experimented with popcorn kernels and eventually, an egg, which (as we all could have told him from mischievous childhood experiments), exploded. The first microwave oven weighed about 750lbs and was about the size of a fridge.

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