[rescue] The Age of Things [was: Re: my point]

[Steven Hill]

> > Microwaves were around 30 years ago?
>
> Nope.  More like _50_ years ago.  The original Raytheon patents were from
> 1945, and they started selling commercial microwave ovens ones right after
> WWII.  Tappan was selling consumer models in the mid 1950s.

I had something in the back of my mind about experiments with
microwaves on poeple in WWII, but perhaps that was an X Files episode.

> A lot of stuff is much older than you think; Farnsworth's first patents on
> television are from 1927.  People had car phones in the early 50s, etc.

Farnsworth? Ah, colour TV, wholly electorinic as opposed to Baird's
mechanical effort.

Righto, carry on!

S.

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