Thursday, April 23, 2009

Microwave Oven - Accidental Invention

"The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket."
Cooking food with microwaves was discovered accidentally in the 1940s. Percy Spencer, a self-taught engineer, was building magnetrons for radar sets with the company Raytheon. He was working on an active radar set when he noticed that a peanut chocolate bar he had in his pocket started to melt. The radar had melted his candy bar with microwaves. The first food to be deliberately cooked with Spencer's microwave was popcorn, and the second was an egg, which exploded in the face of one of the experimenters.

A microwave oven, or a microwave, is a kitchen appliance that cooks or heats food by dielectric heating. This is accomplished by using microwave radiation to heat water and other polarized molecules within the food.

1 comment:

Prasun Kulshrestha said...

amazing RAV....i would love to see more post of urs....cholclate melted & invention..wowo