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The Great List of Everything: The Microwave

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Illustration shows a view from the inside of a microwave looking out the window, where a woman presses her face up to it and watches with wide-eyed amazement.

Iris and Cathon are shocked to discover how big and heavy the first microwave oven was. Turns out that inventing it involved melting a bar of chocolate. Part of "The Great List of Everything" series.

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