Percy Spencer invented the microwave oven at Raytheon after a chocolate bar in his pocket melted near an active radar magnetron in 1945. Spencer was a self-taught engineer. He had dropped out of ...
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This article was produced for RFHIC by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine's board of editors. RFHIC's co-founder and CEO, David Cho (left), and RFHIC's co-founder ...
It may seem like a holdout against the solid-state world, but the vacuum-tube magnetron is still at the heart of every consumer microwave oven and many commercial ones used for cooking or drying.