microwave oven
kitchen cooking appliance
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Summary
microwave oven is a cooking appliance[1]. It draws 10,671 Wikipedia views per month (cooking appliance category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Percy Spencer[3]
- Creator: Raytheon[4]
- Subclass of: home appliance[5], electrical appliance[6], cooking appliance[7]
- Has use: cooking[8], heating[9]
- Commons category: Microwave ovens[10]
- Has part(s): cavity magnetron[11]
- Time of discovery or invention: 1945[12]
- Topic's main category: Category:Microwave ovens[13]
- Commons gallery: Microwave oven[14]
- Location of creation: Raytheon[15]
- OpenStreetMap tag: amenity=microwave[16]
- MCN code: 8516.50.00[17]
- Frequency: 2450[18]
- Uses: microwave[19]
- Exact match: http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/03761084-n[20], http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn31/103721595-n[21]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22]
- P14692: 1286[23]
Why It Matters
microwave oven has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 99 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]