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Percy Spencer (July 19, 1894 – September 8, 1970) was an American physicist, electrical engineer and inventor who became known as the inventor of the microwave oven. [ 1 ] Early life
In 1946, the engineer Dr. Percy LeBaron Spencer, who worked for the Raytheon Corporation, was working on magnetrons. One day at work, he had a candy bar in his pocket, and found that it had melted. He realized that the microwaves he was working with had caused it to melt.
The true story is that it was invented utterly by accident one fateful day more than 70 years ago, when a Raytheon engineer named Percy Spencer was testing a military-grade magnetron and suddenly ...
Percy LeBaron Spencer (1894–1970) is an American inventor known for inventing the microwave oven; Richard LeBaron, United States Ambassador to Kuwait (2004–2007) Vincent Le Baron (born 1989), French footballer; William LeBaron, (1883–1958) American film producer; William Le Baron Jenney (1832–1907), American architect and engineer
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Percival Spencer may refer to: Percival G. Spencer (1864-1913), British balloonist; ... Percy Spencer (1894–1970), American engineer and inventor
Irene Spencer (née Kunz; February 1, 1937 – March 12, 2017) was an American author and a widow of Verlan LeBaron, brother of former prophet Joel LeBaron of the Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times, a fundamentalist Mormon offshoot.
Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975) was an American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. [1] Julian was the first person to synthesize the natural product physostigmine, and a pioneer in industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols such as stigmasterol and ...