{"id":16336,"date":"2023-01-24T15:12:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T15:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/microwave-oven-patented\/"},"modified":"2023-01-24T15:12:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T15:12:31","slug":"microwave-oven-patented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/microwave-oven-patented\/","title":{"rendered":"Microwave Oven Patented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-549\" title=\"Microwave Oven Patent Picture\" alt=\"Microwave Oven Patent Picture\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/e6194__patent-300x253.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/patent-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/patent.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>January 24, 1950<\/p>\n<p>The original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smecc.org\/the_spencer_microwave_oven_patent.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">microwave oven patent<\/a> was issued to Percy LeBaron Spencer under the title \u201cMethod of Treating Foodstuffs.\u201d Five years earlier, Spencer accidentally discovered that microwave energy could heat food when a chocolate bar in his pocket melted while he was experimenting with a microwave tube. Microwave tubes were originally designed for RADAR systems.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/24\/microwave-oven-patented\/\">Microwave Oven Patented<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/24\/microwave-oven-patented\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 24, 1950 The original microwave oven patent was issued to Percy LeBaron Spencer under the title \u201cMethod of Treating Foodstuffs.\u201d Five years earlier, Spencer accidentally discovered that microwave energy could heat food when a chocolate bar in his pocket melted while he was experimenting with a microwave tube. Microwave tubes were originally designed for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[4587,4588,2210],"class_list":["post-16336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-microwave","tag-oven","tag-patented"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}