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JKCalhoun
on Oct 17, 2024
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A History of Microwave Ovens
Anything to the story (urban legend?) I grew up hearing about the origin of the microwave oven being from sailors witnessing sea birds being cooked by the radar dishes on their ships?
hyperdimension
on Oct 17, 2024
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Funny. The story I was told was a soldier's chocolate bar melted in his pocket when next to a radar antenna. Who knows, maybe it was neither.
richk449
on Oct 18, 2024
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It’s a well documented story:
https://www.technologyreview.com/1999/01/01/236818/melted-ch...
It was Percy Spencer - fourth employee at Raytheon (third employee was Vannevar Bush, for reference)
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