[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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...