The dull halogen light. The spinning glass plate. The humming that terminates in a "BEEP." Today the sights, sounds, and smells of the microwave oven are immediately familiar to most Americans.

The microwave has helped save time cooking and reheating food and many wonder what they would have done if they didn't have one. While the microwave oven might be one of the best things today, its ...

Yes, the microwave oven was invented accidentally, when a test for a magnetron melted an engineer’s snack in 1946. Raytheon engineer Perry Spencer “knack for finding simple solutions to manufacturing ...