E: 20/07 Win a microwave with Peter Rhodes

weeowens

http://www.lincsfm.co.uk/win/win-a-microwave-with-peter-rhodes/

So we want to know when the first microwave was sold, after Percy Spencer first invented the first ever one after World War 2?

answer: ?

any ideas as lots of sources state 1955

eg:
https://homes.yahoo.com/blogs/spaces/oct-25-first-microwave-ovens-were-sold-day-155936710.html

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SuzieTheCat

I am getting 1955 too.. I am tempted to just enter it as 1956..

Kraikee

Answer is 1946


Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven

One-Eye

photo of the 1946 Raytheon Radarange HERE

These primitive units where gigantic and enormously expensive, standing 5 1/2 feet tall, weighing over 750 pounds, and costing about $5000 each. The magnetron tube had to be water-cooled, so plumbing installations were also required. Though in full production by 1947, Radaranges were used only in restaurants, on trains, and aboard ocean liners.

brightonman123

odd, looking on the PR site, cheapest Panasonic m/wave is £169..