File 001 · Category Openers
Record 041 · Home · 1967
67.41.MAmana Radarange
Amana / Raytheon
“The first microwave that fit on a counter and then remade leftovers.”
Cooks with microwaves.
Raytheon radar leftover became a $495 Amana appliance. By the 1980s it was a default kitchen box and a new food-packaging industry.
Filed notes
- Consumer-priced cavity magnetron oven
- Countertop form
Units. Microwave ovens later in ~90%+ of U.S. homes
SIC
3631
Household Cooking Equipment
NAICS
335220
Major Household Appliance Manufacturing
