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  2. The Electric Company - Wikipedia

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    Dr. Doolots (Luis Ávalos): a parody of Doctor Dolittle and Groucho Marx who used words to cure his patients. Easy Reader (Morgan Freeman): a smooth hipster who loves reading and is associated with Valerie the Librarian (Hattie Winston) and Vi (Lee Chamberlin) in her diner. The character's name was a pun on the movie Easy Rider.

  3. Microwave oven - Wikipedia

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    A microwave oven, c. 2005 Simulation of the electric field inside a microwave oven for the first 8 ns of operation. A microwave oven heats food by passing microwave radiation through it. Microwaves are a form of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation with a frequency in the so-called microwave region (300 MHz to 300 GHz).

  4. The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Wikipedia

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    When Hugo's father dies in a fire, his uncle brings him to live and work at the train station maintaining the clocks. His uncle disappears, and Hugo keeps the clocks running by himself, living inside the station walls and stealing food from the shops. One day, he rescues the automaton from the burnt museum in hopes of restoring it.

  5. The Microwave Was Invented Utterly by Accident One Fateful ...

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    In 1947, just a year after Spencer’s snack food serendipity, the first commercial microwave oven hit the market. Called the “Radarange,” it weighed nearly 750 pounds and cost more than ...

  6. Microwave - Wikipedia

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    He investigated cooking with microwaves and invented the microwave oven, consisting of a magnetron feeding microwaves into a closed metal cavity containing food, which was patented by Raytheon on 8 October 1945. Due to their expense microwave ovens were initially used in institutional kitchens, but by 1986 roughly 25% of households in the U.S ...

  7. Dr. Seuss - Wikipedia

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    He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss (/ s uː s, z uː s / sooss, zooss). [ 4 ] [ 6 ] His work includes many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death.

  8. And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street - Wikipedia

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    And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street is Theodor Seuss Geisel's first children's book published under the name Dr. Seuss.First published by Vanguard Press in 1937, the story follows a boy named Marco, who describes a parade of imaginary people and vehicles traveling along a road, Mulberry Street, in an elaborate fantasy story he dreams up to tell his father at the end of his walk.

  9. List of fictional towns in literature - Wikipedia

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    Dr. Seuss: Horton Hears a Who! Wickfield Jenő Rejtő: A Nevada szelleme: Willow, Maine Stephen King: Rainy Season: Wigleigh, England Ken Follett: Kingsbridge - series: Wigleigh is a village in South West England. Wilvercombe, England Dorothy L. Sayers: Have His Carcase: A small resort on the South West coast of England, where the murder in the ...