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The Microwave Oven — Invented When a Radar Engineer Melted a Chocolate Bar
Percy Spencer's 1950 Raytheon patent describes the microwave oven — discovered accidentally when Spencer noticed that radar microwaves had melted a chocolate bar in his pocket, leading to the first practical appliance for cooking with radio waves.