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1894Jul, 19

Percy Spencer

Percy Spencer, American physicist and inventor of the microwave oven (d. 1969)
Percy Lebaron Spencer (July 19, 1894 – September 8, 1970) was an American physicist and inventor. He became known as the inventor of the microwave oven.

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Events on 1894

  • 14Apr

    Kinetoscope

    The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
  • 11May

    Pullman Palace Car Company

    Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.
  • 4Jul

    Sanford B. Dole

    The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
  • 25Aug

    Bubonic plague

    Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
  • 1Nov

    Annie Oakley

    Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.