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Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
From: mike_lyle...@yahoo.co.uk (Mike Lyle)
Date: 29 Aug 2004 09:36:55 -0700
Local: Sun, Aug 29 2004 12:36 pm
Subject: Re: On the Front Burner
Ben Zimmer <bgzim...@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote in message <news:413169DE.9CAAF20@midway.uchicago.edu>... [...] > Poking around, I see that 1946 also saw the introduction of the first Interesting, though. I was in the lecture-hall when James Lovelock > microwave oven, Raytheon's "Radarange" (so called because it developed > out of radar research -- when Percy Spencer discovered that a magnetron > had melted the chocolate bar in his pocket). A 1946 Chicago Tribune ad > for the magazine Science Illustrated has a picture with this caption: > COOKING WITH RADAR > Wishful thinking... domestic microwave ovens were only available in (_Gaia Hypothesis_) said he reckoned he'd invented microwave cookery in a lab somewhere. As I unreliably remember it, I think they were using diathermy to thaw frozen experimental animals, and he started using the apparatus to warm up his lunch. I don't know the date he said this happened, or remember whether he claimed to have suggested the use of microwaves for defrosting the hamsters, rats, or whatever they were. Mike. You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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