Chocolate accidentally paved way for the invention of the microwave oven. Scientists during the World War II were primarily experimenting with microwaves wanting to come up with better radar detector. What really happened? Read on.

Radar was primarily used as a military weapon, but it was utilized in other fields as well such as air and sea travel, weather forecasting, among many others. The war was starting to cool off in 1945, but radar work was continuing to be hot stuff.

An American self-taught scientist named Percy Spencer was working around building devices called magnetron for radar sets. He reportedly walked by a cavity magnetron while it was at work.  Spencer reputedly felt some heat and realized that a chocolate bar that he had been carrying in his pocket had melted into a sticky mess.
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