Microwave ovens are everywhere, and at the heart of them is a magnetron — a device that creates microwaves. [DiodeGoneWild] tore one apart to show us what was inside and how it works. If you … ...

But Spencer was not seeking food-related inventions. As an employee of defense technology company Raytheon, Spencer only made the connection to food when a radar magnetron accidentally melted a ...

A radar magnetron is a sort of electric whistle that, instead of creating vibrating sound, creates vibrating electromagnetic waves. According to Michalak, ...

His work on the magnetron, which vastly improved radar technology, garnered him a Distinguished Public Service Award from the U.S. Navy. But that’s not the work on which he’d hang his hat.

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A radar magnetron is a sort of electric whistle that, instead of creating vibrating sound, creates vibrating electromagnetic waves. According to Michalak, ...

The cavity magnetron went on to be used throughout the war in RADAR systems both air and sea. Today, many military RADAR systems use klystrons or traveling wave tube amplifiers due to requirements ...

During World War II, the American military couldn’t get enough magnetrons to satisfy their radar needs. So Percy Spencer , an engineer at Raytheon, was tasked with ramping up magnetron production.

All modern radar manufacturers now offer a dedicated Bird Mode setting, but sometimes it's better to use manual ... and he explained that solid-state radar has a higher average transmitting-power ...