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The Microwave Oven Is More Than Just For Cooking Foods

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Abstract. The microwave oven is much more than just for cooking foods. This paper will briefly discuss the history and technologies as byproduct since the microwaves oven’s accidental invention by Percy Spencer while briefly illuminating some of the subsequent advancements and future concepts or applications of the microwave use in navigational, medicinal and in wireless communications. The Microwave oven has become such an integral part of our lives that we hardly notice its presence. The microwave quietly sits in every home, every restaurant, every convenience store and in college dorms The Microwave oven has become such an integral part of our lives that we hardly notice its presence. It is so much a part of the kitchen that basic housing rentals, not only come standard with stovetop and refrigerator but yes, a microwave oven. The microwave is as essential to our daily lives as the coffeepot. it is one of those technologies like the coffee pot, that we rarely see how important this nifty invention is until we are without it. 1941, while working for the Raytheon Company, Percy Spencer discovered a more efficient way to manufacture magnetrons. This discovery led to significant advances in radar sonar, navigation, communication and undoubtedly his most popular invention, the microwave oven. Experiments showed that microwave heating could raise the internal temperature of many foods far more rapidly than a conventional oven. In 1954 the first Raytheon commercial

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