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Radarange
Percy LeBaron Spencer was experimenting with the radar magnetron, when he discovered that his chocolate bar melted. That was how the microwave was invented. The company the Percy was working for was called Raytheon. -
Radarange
Started selling
Microwave was called Radarange
Cost $5000
Around $52,000 today
Weighed about 750 pounds
5 feet off the ground
3 kilowatts -
Radarange
Had half the power of the original
Cost $2000-$3000 -
Microwave oven
Litton Company made the microwave how we have it in modern times today.
Prices dropped
It was also safer -
Microwave oven/ Microwave
About 25% of Americans had a microwave in their house -
Microwave oven/ Microwave
About 90% of Americans had a microwave in their house -
Microwave oven/ Microwave
Almost the whole country had a microwave in their household, more than 95%!
