smallappsPause for a moment and listen to the appliances in your home. The jarring whine of an old vacuum cleaner, the heavy drone of a conventional drill, the clunky hum of a decades-old fan. For …
The Invisible Wave: Engineering the Turntable-Free Microwave and the Evolution of Heating
For over half a century, the microwave oven has been defined by a spinning glass plate. This rotation was a mechanical admission of defeat—a concession that the standing waves of electromagnetic energy inside the metal …
The Invisible Revolution: Deconstructing the Science and Design of the Sharp Microwave Drawer
It began, as many great innovations do, with a happy accident and a melted chocolate bar. In 1945, a self-taught engineer named Percy Spencer was working on radar technology for Raytheon when he noticed the …