It will be quick and it will be hot. 1967 promotional image for the Amana Radarange The year 2017 marked the 50th anniversary of the home microwave oven. The ovens were first sold for home use by ...

Customers embraced the safer models. The Amana Radarange microwave In 1967, Amana, a division of Raytheon, was developing the first side-by-side refrigerators and upright freezers for home use ...

Melissa Gregg is studying vintage Amana Radarange microwaves and early nonstick frying pans to help build the Internet of Things. Examining Nixon and Khrushchev's 1959 debate about kitchens ...

Amana, a subsidiary of Raytheon corporation, actually called their first model the “Radarange” – a contraction of radar and range (as in stove). What do microwave ovens have to do with radar?

Prices began to fall rapidly. Raytheon, which had acquired a company called Amana, introduced the first popular home model in 1967, the countertop Radarange. It cost $495 (about $3,200 today).

In 1967, Raytheon introduced the first popular home model, the countertop Radarange, priced at $495, through its recently acquired company Amana Corp. Defense companies were the leading manufacturers ...

and lived in Spring Valley for 46 years. She was a homemaker and worked for Amana, demonstrating the Radarange. She loved singing, golf, gardening, fishing and watching the Chargers. We will miss ...

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And nothing has been the same since. In the 35 years since the Amana Radarange premiered in Chicago, Americans have been nuking away like nobody's business, with food manufacturers keeping pace ...

the famous Radarange, in 1967, according to the Amana brand website. The Amana brand name was sold to Goodman Manufacturing in 1997 and then again to Maytag in 2002. Whirlpool acquired the Amana ...