The Microwave – Percy L. Spencer Percy Spencer, an engineer at Raytheon after his WWI stint in the Navy, was known as an electronics genius. In 1945, Spencer was fiddling with a microwave-emitting magnetron — used in the guts of radar arrays — when he felt a strange sensation in his pants. A sizzling, even. […]
8.Bowling Ball Beach — Schooner Gulch, Calif. It might resemble this beach was scattered with bowling balls, yet look once more. These stones at the Schooner Gulch State Beach are consummately round because of a characteristic procedure called concretion. It’s the same process that shaped the winged serpent egg-looking stones at Moeraki. Loading…
