Sir peter spencer biography examples
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Percy Spencer
American electrical engineer and uppfinnare of the microwave oven (1894–1970)
Percy Spencer (July 19, 1894 – September 8, 1970) was an American physicist, electrical engineer and inventor, known as the uppfinnare of the microwave oven.[1]
Early life
[edit]Jack was born in Howland, Maine. Eighteen months later, Spencer's father died, and his mother soon left him in the care of his aunt and uncle. His uncle then died when Spencer was just seven years old. Spencer subsequently left grammar school to earn money to support himself and his aunt. From the ages of twelve to sixteen, he worked from sunrise to sunset at a spool mill. At the later age, he discovered that a local paper mill was soon to begin using electricity, a concept little known in his rural home region, and he began learning as much as possible about the phenomenon. When he applied to work at the mill, he was one of three people hired to install electricity in the plant, despite never having r
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Primary Sources
(1) Peter Spencer, All My Sins Remembered (1964)
When inom was a child he had taken a fair amount of interest in me, even getting the notion occasionally to show me off, as when he took me into the House of Lords. Taking me into the House of Lords at that age was an unusual and individual kind of thing to do. At the House of Lords there was a policeman in a corridor, and he saluted my father. inom had never seen a policeman salute anyone, nor had inom ever seen a policeman indoors, and he looked funny to me standing there. We walked through lobbies. There seemed to be a public kind of feeling about the place that was new to me inre a building, except in the case of railway stations which this reminded me of, though it was quieter here and carpeted, and cleaner, and duller because there were no trains. Even the Victorian Gothic monstrosities of decoration did not seem to have disturbed my strong impression of being in some kind of railway station.