Spencer's Mistakes

Accidents don’t usually lead to great discoveries. Almost all inventions ever made had a mistake involved. Mistakes make us work harder to find something or to make something work. Mistakes help people invent something or make discoveries. Mistakes are key to making discoveries. A mistake from a man named, Percy Spencer, invented the microwave after he accidently left a chocolate bar in his pocket and it melted. When Percy was young he worked in a brand new world of electrical engineering. When trying to convert a machine shop into electrical power he made a lot of discoveries, which came with a lot of mistakes. Percy started working for a company called, Raytheon, which manufactured magnetic devices used for tracking vehicles or other moving objects. In the story,” How a Melted Bar of Chocolate Changed Our Kitchens,” the author said,” Standing near the Magnetron on day while it was on, Spencer noticed that the bar of chocolate in his pocket had melted. He asked for popcorn kernels, and put them near the heat. Minutes later, the man we can thank for popcorn had a discovery on …show more content…
But that is not always the case. In the story,” In Praise of Careful Science”, the author says, “Scientist John Denker says that many “big discoveries” were actually invented, step by step. Scientists made small discoveries over time. These small discoveries were predicted, and then proven, with no mistakes.” The reason scientists are so careful with their process now is because of Percy Spenser’s discovery on the microwave. Now scientists have to be very careful with their process and make as few mistakes as possible. Scientists do make mistakes because even though they took all this time to plan and do research they still can’t always be right. The scientists want to make sure it doesn’t take another 20 years to another needed invention so they are very careful with their