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| Friday 20 Feb 2009: Inventor of the microwave oven |
| In the mid-1940s, American engineer Percy Spencer worked on magnetrons (vacuum tubes that generate microwaves for radar devices) at Raytheon. He developed the idea of a microwave oven after discovering that a chocolate bar had melted in his trouser pocket while he was standing in front of a magnetron device in operation. |