Like so many of the most banal tools of modern life—duct tape, tampons, canned soup, the Internet—the microwave oven was born from the industry of war. Its key element: magnetron tubes, tiny, complicated devices that (I am given to understand) generate super-energetic shortwave radio waves, which….


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