Percy Spencer

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Raytheon engineer who discovered microwave popcorn

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Choses à SavoirChoses à Savoir - Culture générale · Cinq découvertes faites par hasard ! · 0:59 · 12 May
…En effet, dans les années 1940, un ingénieur Percy Spencer travaille sur des radars militaires lorsqu'il remarque qu'une barre chocolatée dans sa poche a fondu près d'un appareil émettant des micro-ondes.…
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Hannah FryThe Rest Is Science · The Physics Of Thermodynamics · 34:06 · 13 Apr
…Anyway, this guy, Percy Spencer-…
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ChuckStuff You Should Know · Popcorn: Who doesn't love it? · 41:03 · May 2025
…Yeah. And we've talked about this guy plenty of times. He was kind of like the Hayflick limit for a while and early stuff you should know. He came up a lot. But a guy named Percy Spencer worked for the Raytheon company and he was in charge of creating magnetrons. I can't remember what he was doing with them. I think they were for like radar or something.…
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NarratorBad Friends · Sick In Japan · 13:27 · Feb 2025
…Look it up, how microwave. Watch, the first microwave. It……
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