While we now think of a magnetron as a microwave oven component, they are important in many microwave devices including radar. They are interesting because all they can do is oscillate.

Microwaves pass through plastic, glass and ceramic but not metals, which is why it is not recommended to use metal containers or utensils in a microwave oven, according to SciTech. A magnetron ...

In a story ripped right out of Terminator, but with the slightly funnier twist that the killer robot is a microwave oven, one self ... named his new microwave Magnetron, and set out to write ...

It’s technically incorrect, of course, as the magnetron inside the oven emits only non-ionizing radiation, and is completely incapable of generating ionizing radiation such as X-rays.

It may seem like a holdout against the solid-state world, but the vacuum-tube magnetron is still at the heart of every consumer microwave oven and many commercial ones used for cooking or drying.

Two years later, it built Radarange, the first microwave oven in the world. The Radarange was as large as a refrigerator, but heavier. The tubes in the magnetron had to be water-cooled ...

Did You Know ... WHOOSH: The whooshing sound a microwave oven makes has nothing to do with the magnetron, which resonates at a frequency far too high for human hearing. The noise is from the ...

Today the sights, sounds, and smells of the microwave oven are immediately familiar ... named Percy Spencer was testing a military-grade magnetron and suddenly realized his snack had melted.

Percy Spencer developed and patented the first microwave oven after noticing that a magnetron was emitting heat-generating microwaves during an experiment with radar in 1945. The first models were ...