{"id":7721,"date":"2026-10-08T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7721"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:53:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:53:53","slug":"microwave-oven-was-patented-by-percy-spencer-in-1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7721","title":{"rendered":"Microwave Oven Was Patented by Percy Spencer in 1945"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25569\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25569\" class=\"wp-image-25569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Microwave-Patent-204x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"247\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Microwave Patent<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Microwave oven was patented by Percy Spencer in 1945<\/strong>. He accidentally discovered the power of microwaves when he found that a candy bar in his pocket had melted when he came near radar. He began to experiment with microwaves under controlled conditions. He received patent number 2,495,429. Children could view his patent, &#8220;Method of Treating Foodstuffs,&#8221; at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US2495429\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microwave Patent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microwave oven was patented by Percy Spencer in 1945. He accidentally discovered the power of microwaves when he found that a candy bar in his pocket had melted when he came near radar. He began to experiment with microwaves under controlled conditions. He received patent number 2,495,429. Children could view his patent, &#8220;Method of Treating <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7721' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2957,2959,2958],"class_list":["post-7721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-microwave-oven","tag-patent-number-2495429","tag-percy-spencer","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7721"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29776,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721\/revisions\/29776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}