[Curious Droid] is back with a history lesson on one of the most important inventions of the 20th century: The cavity magnetron. Forged in the fighting of World War II, the cavity magnetron was the ...

Jefferson Lab Senior SRF Accelerator Physicist Haipeng Wang displays the core of a cavity magnetron during an April 2024 lab tour. NEWPORT NEWS, VA - A pocket-size gizmo that puts the “pop” in ...

When most think of a microwave, they think of that little magic box that you can heat food in really fast. An entire industry of frozen foods has sprung up from the invention of the household ...

The year 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the home microwave oven. The ovens were first sold for home use by Amana Corporation in 1967, but they had actually been used for commercial food ...

Microwave cookers are about to change as magnetrons are replaced by more flexible solid-state energy sources – or so says RF power transistor maker Ampleon, which was part of NXP until last year. It’s ...