dec 25, 1944 - The microwave was unintentionally created in 1945 by Percy Spencer, a self-educated engineer working on a radar project for the defense company, Raytheon. During the testing of a new vacuum tube known as a magnetron, he realized that a chocolate bar in his pocket had melted due to the heat.
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dec 25, 1944
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~ 80 years ago