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English: Demonstration of cooking by radio waves at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, "Century of Progress", Chicago, Illinois, USA from radio magazine. This was a forerunner of modern microwave ovens which were developed in the 1950s. At Westinghouse Corp's "Powercasting" exhibit of futuristic shortwave technology, sandwiches were cooked by placing them between metal plates of a powerful 10 kW 60 MHz short wave transmitter, as shown. The magazine article (p. 394) says steaks, potatoes, and vegetables were also cooked in a few minutes. The exhibit also demonstrated wireless power transmission; a 1/4 horsepower motor was run by radio waves over a distance of 30 feet, and audience members could expose their bodies to the radio waves and feel the heat generated. The short wave technology was developed at Westinghouse research laboratories by I. F. Mouromtseff, and the demonstrations were conducted by G. R. Severance and film star Fifi D'Orsay (shown)
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Source Retrieved March 21, 2015 from Short Wave Craft magazine, Popular Book Corp., New York, Vol. 4, No. 7, November 1933, p. 394 on http://www.americanradiohistory.com
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This 1933 issue of Short Wave Craft magazine would have the copyright renewed in 1961. Online page scans of the Catalog of Copyright Entries, published by the US Copyright Office can be found here. Search of the Renewals for Periodicals for 1960, 1961, and 1962 show no renewal entries for Short Wave Craft. Therefore the copyright was not renewed and it is in the public domain.

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This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart and the copyright renewal logs.

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Actress Fifi D'Orsay assists engineer G. R. Severance in a demonstration of his new method of "cooking by short waves" at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair

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