{"id":87,"date":"2022-04-06T00:03:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T04:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/74.207.228.119\/?p=87"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:00:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T15:00:48","slug":"percy-spencer-a-self-taught-engineer-invented-the-microwave-oven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/06\/percy-spencer-a-self-taught-engineer-invented-the-microwave-oven\/","title":{"rendered":"Percy Spencer a self-taught engineer invented the microwave oven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Percy Spencer (1894-1970) was orphaned at a young age and never finished grammar school. His natural curiosity and long nights studying calculus, physics, metallurgy and chemistry led to a job at a new company in Cambridge called Raytheon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1565487566465-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1565487566465-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1565487566465-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1565487566465-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1565487566465-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1565487566465.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Percy was instrumental in designing radar systems used during World War II, and was credited with many of the Raytheon\u2019s biggest breakthrough inventions. Legend has it, that Percy got the idea for a microwave oven when he noticed that the microwaves he was studying had melted the peanut bar in his pocket into a gooey mess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Percy\u2019s U.S. Pat.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/US2495429.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/US2495429.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2,495,429<\/a>\u00a0claims the basic process of heating food with microwaves within a restricted space. Other Raytheon employees, however, contributed critical technology such as Marvin Bock\u2019s invention of a mechanism to shut off the microwave power when the oven is empty of food, U.S. Pat.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/US2516503.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/US2516503.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2,516,503<\/a>, entitled \u201cControlling Device for Cooking Apparatus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>&#8220;When you work nights you think nobody cares what you do. I know; I used to be there.&#8221;<\/p><cite>P.L. Spencer<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first commercially viable microwave oven was marketed to restaurants as the \u201cRadarange\u201d in 1946. The first consumer microwave oven, the Tappan RL-1, was made under license and sold 1955 for $1,295, or about $12,000 in today\u2019s dollars.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Percy Spencer (1894-1970) was orphaned at a young age and never finished grammar school. His natural curiosity and long nights studying calculus, physics, metallurgy and chemistry led to a job at a new company in Cambridge called Raytheon. 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