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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).
The result was the egg exploding in the face of one of his co-workers, who was looking in the kettle to observe. Spencer then created the first true microwave oven by attaching a high-density electromagnetic field generator to an enclosed metal box. The magnetron emitted microwaves into the metal box blocking any escape and allowing for ...
Raytheon patented the dielectric heating device, naming it the Radarange, and in 1947 the first commercially available microwave oven hit the market. What started as an 800-pound device priced ...
By the 1930s, the first low-power microwave vacuum tubes had been developed using new principles; the Barkhausen–Kurz tube and the split-anode magnetron. [30] These could generate a few watts of power at frequencies up to a few gigahertz and were used in the first experiments in communication with microwaves.
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 $2,000 .
The brothers and Hansen ultimately created the klystron, the first tube that could generate electromagnetic waves at microwave frequencies. [2] Russell was responsible for the design and Sigurd built the first prototype, [3] which was completed in August 1937.
The company's first product was a gaseous ... Raytheon's Percy Spencer invented the microwave oven by discovering that the magnetron could rapidly heat food. In 1947 ...
A look at the history of popcorn beginning with the Iroquois Indians, who popped corn in clay jars.