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,
Inspector Gadget (blogger) story) and the then Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Tim Godwin starting his own blog with the words "I'm not quite Inspector Gadget." In 2013 Inspector Gadget published a book, "Perverting The Course Of Justice: The Hilarious And Shocking Inside Story Of British Policing". He also contributed to "Wasting More Police Time: Further Adventures In La-La Land" (2012), and has written for "The Telegraph". Inspector Gadget (blogger) Inspector Gadget is the pseudonym used by an anonymous British police officer, reportedly an inspector in a rural constabulary in the south of England, who wrote an influential blog called "Police Inspector