Fifty years of microwaving
Today, almost every second home in the United States of America has a microwave. However, this wasn’t the case about 50 years ago. Although they were used for commercial purposes since the 1950’s, the year 1967 saw America’s first home-use microwaves being sold by Amana Corporation. This became possible due to the miniaturization of technology and cost cutting due to which these commercial microwaves were able to be manufactured in smaller sizes and at cheaper rates. A little bit of history first The first domestic microwave oven was christened, ‘radarange’, which was a name coined from the terms radar and range.