Science 101 Dec 2013 | Page 8

4 MICROWAVE OVEN Omar Tarek Melted chocolate and WWII; believe it or not were actually the spark of which the Microwave oven was introduced to our world. Percy Spencer the Godfather of the Microwave oven, the man who built the magnetron for military purposes during WWII; military speaking the magnetron is the power tube of the radar that sets and increases the radar's sentivity tremendously, which also happens to be the main part in the Microwave oven. To start off let's know what heats up our food for us to eat, in the Microwave; the heat emit FACT if our sun was one inch in diameter the nearest star would be 445 miles away si- 7