[Curious Droid] is back with a history lesson on one of the most important inventions of the 20th century: The cavity magnetron. Forged in the fighting of World War II, the cavity magnetron was ...

The cavity magnetron is a power RF oscillator device in which electrons are induced to move in a circular path through a tuned cavity, inducing a high-power RF field, and it lies at the heart of a ...

Jefferson Lab Senior SRF Accelerator Physicist Haipeng Wang displays the core of a cavity magnetron during an April 2024 lab tour. NEWPORT NEWS, VA - A pocket-size gizmo that puts the “pop” in ...

Original cavity magnetron as used to develop radar. Mrjohncummings, CC BY-SA At the heart of radar technology is the “magnetron,” the device that produces the radio waves. During World War II ...

“One such piece of equipment was the compact cavity magnetron, a high-powered vacuum tube that generates microwaves.” His work on the magnetron, which vastly improved radar ...

Invented during the height of the Battle of the Atlantic, the cavity magnetron resembles the vacuum tubes used in old televisions, but with a twist. Magnetrons cause electric charges to oscillate ...

But the greatest treasure of all was the prototype of a piece of hardware called a cavity magnetron, which had been invented a few months earlier by two scientists in Birmingham. John Randall and ...

Take the cavity magnetron. The precursor to this curious form of vacuum tube was invented at General Electric around 1920. It wasn't until 1940 that British scientists found a magnetron design ...