Percy Spencer Percy Spencer 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. Spencer 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,
Gadget & the Gadgetinis for it, when he had no idea what happened. Dr. Claw appears less frequently and there are new villains for the group to contend with. While Brain and Chief Quimby are mainly absent from the show, they do appear in pictures in Gadget's house. Each also appears as a special guest in one episode. Brain appears in episode 36, "No Brainer", which reveals that, having been traumatized after years of pain while saving Gadget and Gadget mistaking him for MAD Agents, he retired from crime-fighting to live in a riverside house, which only Penny knows about. The mere mention of