Older Than deck / Inventions and everyday things
Microwave cooking
Discovered
1945
Found by accident while Percy Spencer worked with radar equipment.
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Checked 2026-10-19: Claude (AI build agent): Wikidata statement compared, passages containing the year extracted from the fetched pages and read. Quotes are short passages from each source, in their original language.
Wikidata P575: 1945Q127956, CC0, retrieved 2026-10-19
“annet til teknisk bruk i industri og laboratorier. Historikk Virkningen av mikrobølger på mat ble oppdaget ved en tilfeldighet i 1945 da den amerikanske ingeniøren Percy Spencer arbeidet med å forbedre en magnetron for”Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian): source, retrieved 2026-10-19
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