Science 101 Dec 2013 | Page 9

FACT sea stars do not have brains ting part in the Microwave is the magnetron. As for how it came to our usage today, it was pure luck that made Spencer find out that the magnetrons had heating power; to cut a long story short, Spencer was once touring one of the laboratories, which had one of the magnetrons. When he stopped for a moment in front of a magnetron he felt a strange thing happening and found out that the chocolate bar in his pocket had began melting. Spencer, quickly asked for a bag of popcorn and surprisingly when he held it up in front of the magnetron, the popcorn began popping within seconds. which had one of the magnetrons. When he stopped for a moment in front of a magnetron he felt a strange thing happening and found out that the chocolate bar in his pocket had began melting. Spencer, quickly asked for a bag of popcorn and surprisingly when he held it up in front of the magnetron, the popcorn began popping within seconds. putty for sure. Can you imagine our lives without Microwave ovens, specially our fast pace lives these days; for instance a guy who lives on his own for college will have to wait for 30 minute for the stove to do what the Microwave does in 3 minutes. In a research Microwave ovens were found to be the number one technology to make people’s lives easier, over 90% of homes in the USA have Microwave ovens, this shows the huge impact of which the Microwave oven has made to our modern lives. If it was not for Spencer and his curiosity, food would have been so much tastier for sure, but on the other hand so much slower to reheat or actually cook. We all know that Microwave ovens have down sides, but at the end of the day they save us the most imperative thing we have, time. At this moment Spencer knew he had a hit between his hands and began experimenting to produce a Microwave oven to be introduced for the first time to the commercial world in 1946. Looking more like a refrigerator the Microwave oven stood over at about five feet tall and weighed over 750 pounds, the Microwave was later modified to fit our lifestyles. Introduced in Chicago the first Microwave to be out on the market was in 1967, which by the time the Microwave featured 115 ]