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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

early microwave oven

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Snapshot is of an early microwave oven from 1976, courtesy of National Museum of American History. The idea was patented after noticing that a magnetron was emitting heat-generating microwaves during an experiment with radar in 1945.

See the inside (via an animated GIF) and read more: http://s.si.edu/micro

Photo: Richard Strauss, Smithsonian

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