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Thanks for the fact-check! Just added this clarification to the article. Should be live in a few minutes

Nice. I'd also suggest moving the spencer patent further down since it came several years later then the frequency allocation.

Check my early early HN submissions for more info.

Edit https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/why-2-4ghz-chasing-wirele...

Anything to the story (urban legend?) I grew up hearing about the origin of the microwave oven being from sailors witnessing sea birds being cooked by the radar dishes on their ships?

Funny. The story I was told was a soldier's chocolate bar melted in his pocket when next to a radar antenna. Who knows, maybe it was neither.

It’s a well documented story: https://www.technologyreview.com/1999/01/01/236818/melted-ch...

It was Percy Spencer - fourth employee at Raytheon (third employee was Vannevar Bush, for reference)

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