The cavity magnetron is a high-power vacuum tube used in early radar systems and subsequently in microwave ovens and in linear particle accelerators. A...
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Microwave oven (section Cavity magnetron)
homogeneous, high-water-content food item. The development of the cavity magnetron in the United Kingdom made possible the production of electromagnetic...
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Resonator (redirect from Resonant cavity)
the cavity in or out, changing its size. The cavity magnetron is a vacuum tube with a filament in the center of an evacuated, lobed, circular cavity resonator...
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physicist who with Sir John Randall and James Sayers developed the cavity magnetron, which was one of the keys to the Allied victory in the Second World...
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Nixie tube (redirect from Magnetron beam-switching tube)
applied to the electrodes made the electrons form a thick sheet (as in a cavity magnetron) that went to only one anode. Applying a pulse with specified width...
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SCR-720 (section Cavity magnetron)
concept was first raised in early 1940 as part of UK research using the cavity magnetron as the basis of a microwave-frequency radar system. They abandoned...
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the period before and during World War II. A key development was the cavity magnetron in the United Kingdom, which allowed the creation of relatively small...
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money to develop the cavity magnetron on a massive scale, Churchill agreed that Sir Henry Tizard should offer the cavity magnetron to the Americans in...
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cavity magnetron and found it superior to the German split-anode magnetrons, particularly for its high power, high frequency performance. Magnetrons based...
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semiconductor electronics after the war. Randall and Boot's prototype cavity magnetron tube at the University of Birmingham, 1940. In use the tube was installed...
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