These ovens were huge, and sold for up to $5,000, which would be around $70,700 today! Eight years later, Raytheon would unveil its first household microwave, the Tappan Model RL-1, which carried ...

In the 1950s, Raytheon ovens were sold to restaurants for high-speed cooking. By the late 1960s, microwave ovens began to appear in homes, and of course, today microwave ovens are found in most ...

The world’s first commercial microwave, the futuristically named Radarange, was invented by an engineer at Raytheon and hit ... and microwave-convection ovens and has contributed to the ...