Microwaves
were first created in 1947 being
1.8 meters in height
and 750 lbs created by Percy Spencer while building magnetrons
for
radar sets
during World War II. The magnetrons would allow the radar sets to
indicate
where the enemy machinery was located, since the microwaves
would reflect
off metal. When Percy Spencer was<> working with the microwaves he
noticed
that a chocolate bar melted when exposed to the microwaves.
Testing the capability of the microwave to
cook food he used first popcorn which was successful and secondly an
egg which
exploded. The first microwaves, then called the Radarange, were
used
only in the military and for large restaurants due to their size, then
the size
was decreased in the 1952's and was priced $1295 which models the
microwaves we see in households today.
