Microwave oven
Horno microondas
- Date
- 1945-1947 · confidence high
- Place
- Raytheon, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Percy Spencer (Raytheon); commercial Radarange in 1947; domestic Amana model in 1967
- People
- 👤 Percy Spencer1894–1970
- Field
- Tools
What it is
An oven that heats food by exciting its water molecules with microwaves from a radar magnetron. It was a direct spin-off of wartime military technology.
What it led to
- Ready meals and frozen food for the microwave
- The change in cooking habits and individual cooking
- The conversion of military technology into household appliances
Built on
- Radar1935
- cavity magnetron
Made possible
- microwaveable ready meals
- microwave popcorn