[Curious Droid] is back with a history lesson on one of the most important inventions of the 20th century: The cavity magnetron. Forged in the fighting of World War II, the cavity magnetron was ...

The cavity magnetron is a power RF oscillator device in which electrons are induced to move in a circular path through a tuned cavity, inducing a high-power RF field, and it lies at the heart of a ...

Invented during the height of the Battle of the Atlantic, the cavity magnetron resembles the vacuum tubes used in old televisions, but with a twist. Magnetrons cause electric charges to oscillate ...

“One such piece of equipment was the compact cavity magnetron, a high-powered vacuum tube that generates microwaves.” His work on the magnetron, which vastly improved radar ...

In the city of Boca Raton, where Florida Atlantic University and the Boca Raton Airport now lie, is a special piece of World War II history.Great Britain — already in the throws of the war in 1940 — ...