A Brief History of Microwave Ovens | The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation

[@mopar6586]

The 57 RCA whirlpool microwave wasn’t a “commercial microwave oven” that was a residential microwave! They started selling residential microwave ovens in 1955. I have a working 1957 and 1962 tappan microwaves both came out of houses of upper middle class people. You can see them work in my videos.

[@RB747domme]

They meant residential. As in, commercially available.

[@vintageappliguy]

@@RB747domme How do you know that is what they meant?

[@Alex-un5tl]

the engineer walked by and his chocolate melted and his retina evaporated and he loved it lol

[@vintageappliguy]

Very nice video but there was one big noticeable inaccuracy. That 1957 RCA Whirlpool was NOT a commercial model it was a model that household consumers could have in their kitchens. The first microwave ovens for home use were offered by Tappan in 1955. The Tappan microwave oven was also built under the RCA Whirlpool and Westinghouse names. These early microwaves were powered by 220 volts of electricity and cost approximately $1500 or the price of a of Chevy 150 sedan hence installation of microwaves in the home were not very common through the mid 1960's and most sales were to restaurants, cafeteria's etc. It was not until Raytheon acquired Amana in 1965 that work was finally started on developing a counter top RadarRange that could be plugged into a 110 Volt outlet. It was introduced in 1967 as the Amana RadarRange and the price was dropped to around $500 and that is when the microwave oven began to take off in sales.

[@heroknaderi]

Cool

[@gravedigr12]

damn and I thought my old microwave was heavy

[@danieledwards7398]

Pop some corn

[@arash5550]

now i see why sometimes i feel abit heat and discomfort in my pocket .

[@AgentOffice]

No that's the processor

[@tommyhatcher3399]

There's actually a lot of factual errors in this video. Do your job, lady.

[@danieledwards7398]

Stop hating at least they have a microwave from the 1950s who do you know that still has one of those

[@g0203]

The beginning of globesity lol

[@vintageappliguy]

You should never pop corn in your microwave oven for the same reason you never run your microwave oven when it is empty, it can shorten the life of the magnetron tube. Microwaves are absorbed by and excite the water molecules in food and that is how microwaves are used to cook food. Popcorn has virtually no moisture content and so most the microwaves produced by the magnetron tube have no place to go and that can cause the magnetron tube to overheat thus shortening its life.

[@Sylvillian]

Please stop believing the kyles or Karens on facebook

[@vintageappliguy]

@@Sylvillian it is not the Karen's and Kyle's on Facebook who have told me that, it is appliance repairmen who have told me that and I will take the word of an appliance repairman over your word anytime.

[@straightpipediesel]

@@Sylvillian What he said is true, the poorly absorbed microwaves get reflected back into the tube and heat it up. However, you're correct in that he's being a Karen/Kyle on KZbin, since nobody has ever had a modern magnetron tube fail. Usually people toss their microwaves because they got too much crap burned on the inside and couldn't be bothered to clean it. Otherwise, it's because the door switches failed.

[@vintageappliguy]

@@straightpipediesel I have 2 questions for you. The first one is, how am I being a Karen/Kyle by pointing out a simple fact that popping popcorn in a microwave can damage it? I am not screaming at anyone about it or calling names or doing any f the other things you see those type of people do to get their point across. Thee second question is how do you know why people replace their microwaves do you work in an appliance repair shop or something? As I said in the post above I got my information straight from some appliance repair guys who have fixed many microwaves over their careers in the appliance repair business.

[@robertknight4672]

@@straightpipediesel I've never replaced the microwave from magnetron failure. I either replace them cuz I want a different size or different features. I had a cheap early 2000s microwave that was small and only had a timer dial and you could not change the power settings. That was replaced with something better.