Friday Fact 27 March 2009

Plan your hangover breakfast - it's Friday!

Did you know that the world's first microwave oven was 6 feet tall and weighed over 300 kg?

From Wikipedia:

On October 8, 1945 Raytheon filed a U.S. patent for Spencer's microwave cooking process and an oven that heated food using microwave energy was placed in a Boston restaurant for testing. In 1947, the company built the Radarange, the first microwave oven in the world. It was almost 6 feet (1.8 m) tall, weighed 750 pounds (340 kg) and cost about US$5000 each. It consumed 3 kilowatts, about three times as much as today's microwave ovens, and was water-cooled.

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