They were kind-hearted and rarely did anything that was cruel. Supposingââ It was cruel to excite and upset her just for that; it made the pain worse. The contrasts were so cruel that they scorched the eyes of the soul. Those who bring them on us seem captious, thoughtless, cruel. He is cruel, and the very incarnation of selfishness, he said. If he had been guilty, what was that to the cruel world so ready to punish, so ready to do worse! I did not know how cruel they were, or I would have come long ago. Judge what a cruel wound for the heart of that poor shepherd! It's just cruel the way that poor old horse has been neglected.
My grandfather was watching a microwave testing rig, and he realized that the peanut-cluster bar in his pocket started to melt â it got quite warm, Rod Spencer, inventor and grandson of Percy Spencer, told Business Insider.
The microwave oven was invented as an accidental by-product of war-time (World War 2) radar research using magnetrons (vacuum tubes that produce microwave radiation, a type of electromagnetic radiation that has a wavelength between 1 mm and 30 cm).