It was approved in January 1950, and Raytheon began manufacturing the commercial microwave oven, called “Radarange.” According to the University of Maine, the invention is listed as Patent ...
By that point, people were calling Spencer's invention the "microwave oven" (eventually to be shortened to simply, "microwave"), and adoption skyrocketed around the world. One in four American ...
That labour-saving device which warms your dinner up when you’re late home was, believe it or not, invented by accident. Image caption, The microwave oven was invented by accident in World War Two.