Percy l spencer biography
Percy l spencer biography
Percy l spencer!
Percy Spencer - The Inventor of the Microwave Oven
Percy Lebaron Spencer was an American engineer and inventor and is the most famous as the inventor of the microwave oven but there is more interesting stories to be told about him.
He was born on 19 July 1894 in Howland, Maine and his hard childhood started almost immediately. When he was only 18 months old he lost his father and his mother left him after that to his aunt and uncle.
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His uncle died, when Spencer was only 7 years old and shortly after that he had to leave grammar school so he could find a job and earn money to support him and his aunt. At the age of 12, he had a job at a spool mill. He was at this job until he was 16 when he heard that a local paper mill will start using electricity which intrigued him.
Unable to find anyone that would tough him about electricity (Howland, Maine was a very remote community), he tough himself all that he could and when he applied for a job at the paper mill he was one of three peo