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    now common. The magnetron feed was also unique. This resulted in an oven that could survive a no-load condition: an empty microwave oven where there is...
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    The cavity magnetron is a high-power vacuum tube used in early radar systems and subsequently in microwave ovens and in linear particle accelerators....
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    microwave ovens. The most notable manufacturer of this type of oven is TurboChef. The differences between an impingement oven with magnetrons and a convection...
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    microwaves while studying the magnetron. By 1947, the first commercial microwave was in use in Boston, Massachusetts. Wall oven Wall ovens make it easier to work...
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  • the first true microwave oven by attaching a high-density electromagnetic field generator to an enclosed metal box. The magnetron emitted microwaves into...
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  • test ovens. Failing to verify the connection to the proper oven, caused an open oven, being modified by adjusting the positions of the two magnetrons (2kW...
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    research on the magnetron tube revealed the potential of microwaves to cook food. In 1945, Raytheon's Percy Spencer invented the microwave oven by discovering...
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  • piece of technology that lies at the heart of your microwave oven today. The cavity magnetron's invention changed the world." Randall also led the King's...
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  • interference potential of microwave ovens. A typical microwave oven uses a self-oscillating vacuum power tube called a magnetron and a high voltage power supply...
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    radiation from a magnetron oscillator melted a candy bar in his pocket. He investigated cooking with microwaves and invented the microwave oven, consisting...
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  • piece of technology that lies at the heart of your microwave oven today. The cavity magnetron's invention changed the world. Harford, Tim (9 October 2017)...
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  • the microwave oven by discovering that the magnetron could rapidly heat food. In 1947, the company demonstrated the Radarange microwave oven for commercial...
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    opening of a microwave oven door, which releases a frequency-swept radio pulse, which mimics a fast radio burst, as the magnetron turns off. Hybrid (mythology)...
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  • the first semiconductor laser and invented a type of magnetron commonly used in microwave ovens. He also contributed to the development of rectifiers...
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  • Microwave ovens often use a microswitch that acts as a crowbar circuit in the door latch assembly. This monitor switch will absolutely prevent the magnetron from...
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    piece of technology that lies at the heart of your microwave oven today. The cavity magnetron's invention changed the world. Harford, Tim (9 October 2017)...
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    one of the walls of the cavity in or out, changing its size. The cavity magnetron is a vacuum tube with a filament in the center of an evacuated, lobed...
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    air surrounding the sheet. Modern microwave ovens have been designed to prevent damage to the cavity magnetron tube from microwave energy reflection, and...
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  • radio frequency (RF) energy in these bands include RF heating, microwave ovens, and medical diathermy machines. The powerful emissions of these devices...
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    around the poles (lower) Alnico horseshoe magnet used in a magnetron tube in an early microwave oven. About 3 in (8 cm) long. Assortment of AlNiCo horseshoe...
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    The microwave oven releases a frequency-swept radio pulse that mimics an FRB as the magnetron turns off. Two Matsushita microwave ovens were deemed responsible...
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    in the United States to work on the cavity magnetron, which is used in microwave radar and microwave ovens. Born into a traditional Polish-Jewish family...
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    Generators of radio waves for heating or industrial purposes, such as microwave ovens or diathermy equipment, are not usually called transmitters, even though...
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  • the University of Birmingham on centimetric radar, producing the cavity magnetron. He worked with John Randall and Harry Boot. From 1943 to 1945 he was...
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  • a combination of a magnetron with a specialized controller. Magnetrons are manufactured in large volumes for use in microwave ovens and are able to produce...
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    stabilize their frequency. The oven-controlled OCXOs require usually 3–10 minutes for heating up to reach thermal equilibrium; the oven-less oscillators stabilize...
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    indication of the effective power output of the magnetron. This can be helpful to determine whether the oven is operating at the expected power levels indicated...
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    particle accelerators and microwave vacuum tubes such as klystrons and magnetrons. Most resonant cavities are made from closed (or short-circuited) sections...
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    tubes are still employed in some applications, such as the magnetron used in microwave ovens, certain high-frequency amplifiers, and high end audio amplifiers...
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    wide usable range of wavelengths. In a microwave oven a waveguide transfers power from the magnetron, where waves are formed, to the cooking chamber....
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