[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 ...

In 1940, England was in a dangerous predicament. The Nazi war machine had been sweeping across Europe for almost two years, claiming countries in a crescent from Norway to France and cutting off the ...

Jefferson Lab Senior SRF Accelerator Physicist Haipeng Wang displays the core of a cavity magnetron during an April 2024 lab tour. NEWPORT NEWS, VA - A pocket-size gizmo that puts the “pop” in ...

Radar was one of the UK’s saving graces in WWII and moving radar to higher frequencies, which increased range and increased resolution, became a priority. The most important technical breakthrough in ...

The year 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the home microwave oven. The ovens were first sold for home use by Amana Corporation in 1967, but they had actually been used for commercial food ...

There’s no denying that Russia has become one of the Internet’s primary sources of thrilling content; daredevilry, car crashes, funny circumstances, and of course, DIY electronics. The video below is ...