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Graham

Graham Report 5 Oct 2014 11:05

Did you know that the first microwave oven went on sale in 1946? It was invented by Percy Spencer and was called the radarange.

I remember when the people who lived opposite me in the 1970s bought a microwave. Everybody thought they must have been filthy rich. Now you can buy one for about £25.

As mentioned on another thread, computers have been around much longer than many people think.

Can you think of anything else that is much older than some people might think?

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 5 Oct 2014 11:09

Yes.......

Me! ;-)

Researching:
"If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))

OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 5 Oct 2014 11:19

PricklyHolly they don't make them like they used to ;-) :-D

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"

Sharron

Sharron Report 5 Oct 2014 11:19

I can remember annealing stainless steel bowls in a factory in the early seventies by placing them inside a ring that emitted something.

Can't remember what it emitted and I wasn't very interested at the time.

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 5 Oct 2014 16:52

Probably a Magnetic induction ring ,,,,.......

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

Kense

Kense Report 5 Oct 2014 20:45

Touchscreen displays - mid sixties.

BrianW

BrianW Report 6 Oct 2014 10:29

The name Radarange is most likely because of the fact that both radar and the microwave use a magnetron which was developed during the war for radar and which produces the ultra short wavelength radiation you need for both.
(If I remember correctly without actually looking it up!)

Researching:
Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)