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  2. Percy Spencer - Wikipedia

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    The result was the egg exploding in the face of one of his co-workers, who was looking in the kettle to observe. Spencer then created the first true microwave oven by attaching a high-density electromagnetic field generator to an enclosed metal box. The magnetron emitted microwaves into the metal box blocking any escape and allowing for ...

  3. History of YouTube - Wikipedia

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    YouTube's initial headquarters was above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. [11] The domain name "YouTube.com" was activated on February 14, 2005, with video upload options being integrated on April 23, 2005, with the slogan "Tune In, Hook Up" ─ the original idea of Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim.

  4. Jawed Karim - Wikipedia

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    Jawed Karim was born on October 28, 1979, in Merseburg, East Germany, to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother. [3] His father Naimul Karim (Bengali: নাইমুল করিম) is a Bangladeshi who is a researcher at 3M, and his mother, Christine, is a German biochemistry scientist at the University of Minnesota. [4]

  5. The Microwave Was Invented Utterly by Accident One Fateful ...

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    Yes, the microwave oven was invented accidentally, when a test for a magnetron melted an engineer’s snack in 1946.. Raytheon engineer Perry Spencer “knack for finding simple solutions to ...

  6. The Story Behind the Microwave - AOL

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    Raytheon patented the dielectric heating device, naming it the Radarange, and in 1947 the first commercially available microwave oven hit the market. What started as an 800-pound device priced ...

  7. Microwave oven - Wikipedia

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    A microwave oven or simply microwave is an electric oven that heats and cooks food by exposing it to electromagnetic radiation in the microwave frequency range. [1] This induces polar molecules in the food to rotate and produce thermal energy (heat) in a process known as dielectric heating .

  8. YouTube - Wikipedia

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    YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search.

  9. Alan MacMasters hoax - Wikipedia

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    After the lecture, Alan and his friends visited the toaster article on Wikipedia, where one of his friends, Alex, edited the article to replace the lecturer's friend's name with Alan MacMasters, claiming he invented the toaster in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1893. [1] [2] [3] A year later, Alex contemplated the extent to which he could escalate the ...