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Cavity Magnetron
Randall and Boot's magnetron (Birmingham, 1940) makes powerful microwaves in a small tube and allows compact centimetre radar.
Open in the interactive tree →John Randall and Harry Boot built the cavity magnetron in February 1940. The tube made airborne radar possible and still sits inside every microwave oven.
Prerequisites
- Vacuum Tube (Triode)1906
- Radar1935
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- Microwave Oven1945